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Feb 3, 2001 | 07:21 PM

toddieie

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starter won't disengage...

i have a 95 F150 302, starter all of the sudden decided to keep trying to start the engine...after the engine is running...and...after the key and engine are turned off! i had to disconnect the battery to stop it before it burned up. i replaced the solenoid and stopped for a day...then started doing it again. need advise or help please????

Feb 3, 2001 | 08:08 PM

fatforty

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starter won't disengage...

toddieie, welcome to the boards, your problem could be dirty connections or a bad ground on the selonoid if it stopped when you changed the selonoid then it probably is there take the wires off and use a piece of sandpaper and clean the terminals on the wires and put them back on and try it.
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Feb 3, 2001 | 08:39 PM

toddieie

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they didn't seem dirty...but i will definitly try that...thanks.

Feb 4, 2001 | 11:39 AM

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You said you had to remove the battery cable to make it quit cranking over, but what I want to know is what happens when you place the battery cable back on the battery ? If it starts to crank on its own, remove the battery cable quickly. Now remove the small red wire from the solenoid and try the battery cable back on the battery....does it still want to crank over ?
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Feb 4, 2001 | 04:49 PM

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I had the same problem with my '92 F-150 302. I changed the fender mounted starter solenoid twice in about a 6 month period. It would seem to help for a while, but every once in a while the starter would stay engaged and I have had to remove the battery cable to stop it from cranking the engine even while the switch key was in the off position. I removed the starter and replaced the solnoid on the starter. It cost about $40 from Advance Auto and I haven't had any problems in the last 6 months. Hop this might help.

Feb 4, 2001 | 07:44 PM

toddieie

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starter won't disengage...

to answer a question...when i remove the battery cable the started would stop...and didn't try to start once battery cable connected back up.

it hasn't happened in 1 day...yet...i am thinking it may be in the ignition switch. the reason being, it is somewhat loose and seems to need some lubricating. however...when the starter was engaging, i could shut the engine off with the ignition switch and the starter would remain engaged and continued to search for some life in the engine. i didn't know there was another solenoid on the starter...but will pull the starter and see if that might be the culprit.

i did fix a intermittent wiper problem. the wipers only had 1 or 2 speeds. i saw another post on this board and took apart the turn signal and cleaned the sticky grease...it WORKED! i feel i have found gold on this site...thanks guys...

Feb 4, 2001 | 08:40 PM

fjones

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After I would remove my battery cable, I could put it back on and my starter would be fine. It may go 2-3 weeks before it would act up again, but when it did nothing would disengage it until I removed the battery cable. I pulled the tumbler out of the steering column, lubricated everything I could get to, installed a new tumbler and a month or so later it still hung up again. You can replace the whole starter for about $100-$120 or the solenoid for about $40. If your truck has quite a few miles on it, it would probably be cheaper to replace the starter. I had replaced the brushes in the starter earlier at about 100,000 miles and about 105,000 the starter started hanging up. The brushes were $22. After replacing the solenoid the truck has 112,000 and hasn't caused a problem since.