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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 09:19 PM
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Slow start

Yesterday my truck became hard to start. The motor is cranking slower then normal, so this evening I went to advance auto and had the alternater, batteries, and the starter checked and all check O.K.. The batteries read over 13 volts and the alternater was 14.6 volts. Batteries check 12 volts under a load. Any ideas why my truck is cranking so slow.
 
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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 09:38 PM
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mine did this and kept getting slowr and slower...turned out to be my starter. 169.00 lifetime warranty from autozone...
 
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Old Jan 10, 2006 | 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by 1997F-350
mine did this and kept getting slowr and slower...turned out to be my starter. 169.00 lifetime warranty from autozone...
Diddo, same thing here. mine went bad about 2 years ago.
 
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Old Jan 10, 2006 | 07:56 AM
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yup, same thing here too.
 
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Old Jan 10, 2006 | 05:11 PM
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Thanks guys looks like I'm heading back to advance
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 07:11 PM
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I'm living this very issue right now. My truck cranking speed has slowed over the past week. I had thought there was a slow battery drain. Today three cylinders and no more cranking. No amount of battery charging / boosting would get it to crank over after that.

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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Rory_Johnson
I'm living this very issue right now. My truck cranking speed has slowed over the past week. I had thought there was a slow battery drain. Today three cylinders and no more cranking. No amount of battery charging / boosting would get it to crank over after that.

Rory
I havent had time to change my starter yet, but today the crazy thing has done fine even with the tempertures dropping. I'm 99% sure its the starter though(since its been on the truck for almost 100K.
 
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