Starting Trouble!! Please help!!
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Starting Trouble!! Please help!!
I hope that some on can help. So here is the story: I bought an 87 F-150 that ran fine at first. Then one morning the truck had no power, so I replaced the battery. Ran fine. Two days later I tried to start the truck and again no power. I took the truck to Advanced Auto and they said the Altinator was bad, so I replaced it and the positive battery cable. In the process of hooding up the new cable I broke the old solinoid and had to replace it. When I tried to start the truck it started then the thing kept trying to start, even with the key out. So I hurred and unhooked the battery, I tried another solinoid; same thing. I tried a third with the wires backwards, worked fine for two days, then it welded the solinoid leads togather again and the starter kept running again. Any ideas??? Any help would be appreciated.
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Contacts usually burn together because of an overload of whatever they operate. In this case the starter may be drawing to much current and welding the contacts together. Does the starter spin the engine at a good speed or is a bit slow or labored?
It would be best to do a draw test on the starter to know for sure.
It would be best to do a draw test on the starter to know for sure.
