Lately my truck has been a little hard to start. I was trying to figure out if it was batteries, cables or starter. Well today I had time and nice enough weather to do some troubleshooting. Turns out it was two of the three issues.

First off I ran a jumper cable down to the starter since it wouldn't crank. I figured if the battery cables were the culprit I could at least get it to turn over this way. Well it did nothing so I pulled the starter and bench tested it. Dead. New starter it is.

My batteries were a little low on fluid due to alot of starting vs driving time this past winter. The 93 has more or less become the farm truck since I got the 06'. As such it gets started alot. This caused the batteries to need charging a few times and thus the low fluid. As I was filling the last cell of the first battery I noticed it running out a crack in the case. Bummer but at least it's just one battery that's bad. Real shame as they are a matched pair only 1 1/2 years old.

I grabbed the near new battery from my tractor (MF 135) and stuck it in the truck. I started the truck and DAMN. It is running immediately upon turning the key. I have heard this was how an IDI was supposed to start but until today mine never has.

So all in all it was a good day for the IDI.

 

Thats good to hear man.

 

Yeah thats what happened to me several times, you don't realize your truck is spinning slow until you get a new starter and it spins fast.

 

just curious
there are 3 different starters for that motor
which one did you have??
and which one did you put in??

 

I had a Mitsubishi starter originally. When it died I swapped in a spare I had acquired with some other parts. It was the open pinion design not sure which brand. It worked for a couple of days before it quit. It was essentially an emergency when I went to Advance (hanging head in shame) on Sunday (my only day off) and bought one. It actually works well for now. It is also the open pinion design.