no start need help
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From: Elkhorn, WI
Are any of you guys thinking it might be battery cables? We chased a starting problem on my superduty new batteries starter alternator and it turned out to be the battery cables. They looked ok but corrosion got in behind the insulation. Have you checked voltage at the starter while cranking? The problem is cables are epensive unless you make your own out of welding cables.
Hotshot
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From: Plankinton, SD
Never thought of batt cables, be worth it to hook up temporary cables to try..
I need to make new ones for my truck as they are getting bad, plus batteries are moving..
Sylenoid should be more of a click than still trying to turn over.
The picture I get in my head is it turns over real slow, like dead batteries. That what you guys get out of this?
I need to make new ones for my truck as they are getting bad, plus batteries are moving..
Sylenoid should be more of a click than still trying to turn over.
The picture I get in my head is it turns over real slow, like dead batteries. That what you guys get out of this?
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From: Lawson, Missouri
Say's Brand New Batteries
no i bought this truck for cheap thinking it would be a pretty simple fix and i would have a cheap tow rig for my rock crawlers. so found this one, the guy said it had a fuel leak and needed a starter. he was parking it on a hill and rolling to get it started not sure how long he did it for but. i heard it run, watched him do it and drove it home 20 miles or so figured easy fix right. well i fixed the fuel leak easy enough and put in a new starter. along with everything else is stated above (glow plug, glow plug relay batteries, oil, but have never got it to run since. (about 2 months)
brand new batteries
brand new batteries
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From: Elkhorn, WI
That's exactly what mine did. New batteries wouldn't spin fast enough new starter no change put in new cables fired right up. Would it be possible to hook a jumper cable to the battery and to the starter or relay?
Hotshot
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From: Plankinton, SD
I'd try to rig something up on the passenger side battery, not worrying about the other one. If one new one with known good cables is hooked it should tell us if that is the problem. Good thinkin on checking the batt cables Justin.
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From: Lawson, Missouri
True...thats a possibility, that the Battery cables are corroded within the insulation....That huge OEM connector was so corroded / gone, on mine I made a new harness for both batteries from welding cable also...
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From: Texas Coast
Switch
This is a 97 F-150.
Laughing Gas
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From: melbourne beach, fl
looks identical to my 97 5 speed,just jump two wires for the neutral safety switch and that bypasses the system.Also see if there are good battery ground cables from the engine, a simple fix.
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From: melbourne beach, fl
The consensus here is to get the DP gear drive starter,uses almost half the amps the factory does.And these days as most auto parts are made new in china or japan and cheap quality.The DP starters are the same although the design is much better and more simple.
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