Dying Starter Solenoid?
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01-11-2012, 12:03 PM
My top-notch rebuild guy says that the Mitsubishi brushes are harder material than most other starters, and hardly ever go out.
According to him, that solenoid that you replaced is the culprit almost every time.
If you greased the gear reduction gears when replacing the solenoid, you should be good-to-go for another 200,000 or so.
Congratulations on replacing only the necessary materials. America needs to get back to this way of thinking! We used to FIX things. Now, we just replace.......
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According to him, that solenoid that you replaced is the culprit almost every time.
If you greased the gear reduction gears when replacing the solenoid, you should be good-to-go for another 200,000 or so.
Congratulations on replacing only the necessary materials. America needs to get back to this way of thinking! We used to FIX things. Now, we just replace.......
Pop
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My top-notch rebuild guy says that the Mitsubishi brushes are harder material than most other starters, and hardly ever go out.
The solenoid that you replaced is the culprit almost every time.
If you grease the gear reduction gears when replacing the solenoid, you should be good-to-go for another 200,000 or so.
Congratulations on replacing only the necessary materials. America needs to get back to this way of thinking! We used to FIX things. Now, we just replace.......
Pop
The solenoid that you replaced is the culprit almost every time.
If you grease the gear reduction gears when replacing the solenoid, you should be good-to-go for another 200,000 or so.
Congratulations on replacing only the necessary materials. America needs to get back to this way of thinking! We used to FIX things. Now, we just replace.......
Pop
I didn't open up the starter, and I couldn't find a solenoid part # anywhere so I had it replaced at a shop near my office for $30. Well worth it considering I needed the truck that night and didn't have the part to REALLY do it myself....still beats replacing the entire thing with a lower quality non-OEM starter.
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01-11-2012, 12:28 PM
The cost of the solenoid isn't much less than the $30 you have in it, so they didn't ask much for their labor.
Yea, we used to fix things. There was a time we used mechanical fuel pumps. The diaphram and valves in the rebuild kit were under $5. Then some company bought up all the resources for the parts and only made entire fuel pumps available, for considerably more, naturally.
They've attempted to do that same thing with starters and alternators too, but there are still lots of people selling just the parts.
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Yea, we used to fix things. There was a time we used mechanical fuel pumps. The diaphram and valves in the rebuild kit were under $5. Then some company bought up all the resources for the parts and only made entire fuel pumps available, for considerably more, naturally.
They've attempted to do that same thing with starters and alternators too, but there are still lots of people selling just the parts.
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04-22-2012, 02:57 PM
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