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<div>My suggestion is to first determine why your car is "hard to start in the winter". My 3000 sits all winter (in Kansas) without being started. In the spring it starts after cranking for 5-10 seconds. </div>
<div>I have a trickle charger that I connect to the battery periodically. I measure the battery voltage & if it dips below about 12.5 volts I attach the trickle charger. My battery is an Odyssey PC1200 (CCA = 630). According to Odssey 12.5 volts is 75% charged. 12.84 is 100% charged. These are steady state figures, assuming the battery has not been on the charger for at lease 1 day & has not recently been used to start the car.</div>
<div>When I hear that a car is hard to start in the winter the first thing I would check is the proper operation of the choke. Fuel enrichment not fast idle, depending upon the carbs on your BT7. </div>
<div>Gary Hodson</div>
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From: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net><br>
To: healeys <healeys@autox.team.net><br>
Sent: Thu, May 17, 2018 10:00 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Cold Cranking Amps<br>
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<div>John,</div>
<div>Do you use a battery maintainer? They can help (but AGMs should
have one tuned for them). Have you had your starter rebuilt? The
field coils, in particular, can degrade and reduce the starter
output considerably. Solenoids degrade over time, too.<br>
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<div>It doesn't get that cold where you, and I used to, live; you
shouldn't have that much trouble starting your Healey in the
winter, even if it's sat for a couple months. Mine would take
10-15 seconds of cranking in the winter after sitting to start, as
opposed to maybe 5 seconds in warmer months.</div>
<div>Switching to a lower-viscosity oil, for the winter at least,
might help some too. I use 20W-50 year-round. My experience with
the 'boosters'--exactly one--is that they might help a marginal
starter/battery over the top, but will not cold start a completely
dead battery, and least not on a big 6- or 8-cyl engine.<br>
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<div>Bob<br>
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<div class="aolmail_moz-cite-prefix">On 5/16/2018 10:29 PM, John Spaur
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<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So… I never
completely described the issues pertaining to this query.</span></div>
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<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I have a 3000
BT7 and good 775 CCA battery. My car is hard to start in the
winter, despite being housed in my garage, because I drive
it infrequently. Yes, I know… just drive it more often!</span></div>
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<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">When starting
it in the winter, the battery starts to give out, but not
completely (yet) before starting the car. I suspect it is
due to fuel degradation even though I add Stable to the
petrol. I would like to get a portable jump starter for
extra starting power instead of jumping from my daily
driver. Been checking the list recommendations and some have
a cranking rating but most do not.</span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">John</span></div>
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<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Healeys
[<a class="aolmail_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b><a class="aolmail_moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 16, 2018 5:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="aolmail_moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Cold Cranking Amps</span></div>
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<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">The
one thing that noone’s mentioned so far is putting in a
modern starter motor. That won’t clean up the contacts in
the wiring system, but it will certainly make the best use
of your amps.</span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">Plainly
not to everyone’s taste. Visually not obtrusive, but audibly
a bit off.</span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">Does
create space for a bigger oil filter if you’ve got a
conversion that comes straight off the block…..</span></div>
<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:windowtext">Simon</span></div>
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