help with a sever engine tap
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help with a sever engine tap
I have a 1988 f150 with the 5.0 4x4 with a brand new aod transmission. I just had a shop put a new starter and switcherd the wires on the starter selonoid(brother put on backwards) and now it has tapping it sounds like its diesel. The problem is that this is the most outrageous tapps that u ever heard and if you get on the gas a little bit it gets a lot worse. I don't think its an engine tap beacause of how loud it is. I think the the starter satying engaged. Any help would be great;y appreciated.
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It does not particularly matter which of the large terminals on the solenoid you use for the battery, and which you use for the starter. It IS important that the wire for the starter be the ONLY wire on whatever terminal you use. If you somehow managed to hook the alternator wires to the starter side of the solenoid, bad things will happen, including a starter that won't shut off.
Assuming you got this right, loosen the nut holding the starter wire, then snug it back down just past finger tight. Start the truck. Now loosen the nut again, and pull the starter wire off. Does the noise go away? If so, the starter had power applied when it should not. If not, you have something else wrong.
Assuming you got this right, loosen the nut holding the starter wire, then snug it back down just past finger tight. Start the truck. Now loosen the nut again, and pull the starter wire off. Does the noise go away? If so, the starter had power applied when it should not. If not, you have something else wrong.
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Today i was messing around with it and found it to be coming from the bottom of the transmission/flywheel are. It seems as though the flywheel plate is rubbing any suggestions or should i just take it to my trransmission guy and let him mess with it.
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From: washington!
sounds like something is funky with the tranny/engine alignment and possibly a broken flexplate or something along that line. Definitly something you want to have checked out by your tranny guy before it becomes something expensive. An once of prevention is worth $1500+ in cure or something like that.
