[Nobbc] 1959 Austin Healey 3000 BT7 Starter?

[don]

Before you buy a new starter . . . make sure the engine is grounded 
properly.  On these old cars, the ground cable connections from the 
engine to the frame can be corroded.  You can check this easily; just 
run a jumper cable from the engine to a place on the frame or body 
and try to start it.  And make sure the battery has a good charge, as 
the charging system may be at fault.  Or the battery.  Or the starter.


At 05:32 PM 07/18/2010, wkilch at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>Hi Krissy
>Have you checked the charge in your battery? If you don't have a 
>good charger I can lend you one. When you hook it up it tells you 
>the amount of charge in your battery.
>
>Walter
>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kris Klein <krisk1 at yahoo.com>
>Sender: nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:33:51
>To: <nobbc at autox.team.net>
>Reply-To: North Bay British Car Club <nobbc at autox.team.net>
>Subject: [Nobbc] 1959 Austin Healey 3000 BT7 Starter?
>
>Hoping for suggestions:
>Just got my Healey back from my mechanics over in
>Stockton and turned it off in
>my driveway and now it does not start. It only
>clicks once. Using my test light
>and talking to my mechanic I have pinpointed
>the problem (I think) to a bad
>starter. I have tried the hammer trick to no
>avail. I wish the mechanic would
>have had a crystal ball to see that it was
>going to go bad because it didn't
>give any indication.
>
>Can anyone suggest a
>local British car repair shop that I can trust to put in a
>new starter so I
>don't have to get my car towed to Stockton? My mechanic is
>suggesting putting
>in a newly designed starter with a built in solenoid (higher
>torque starter
>ratio or something like that) which requires a little
>customization during
>installation. Or does anyone suggest just purchasing a
>starter on the web or
>locally and think I can put it in myself? Please email me
>your suggestions.
>Thanks,
>Krissy Klein
>1959 Austin Healey 3000 BT7