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starter issue
it rained most of the morning and i had the day off work so i went wheeling . all and all it was fun , i took the truck to the car wash and cleaned it and went to start it an all it doed is click really fast ( checked all cables and even did my lil trick to try and get it to fire ) and nothing all it does is click , acts like the batterys dead ( new optima yellow ) windsheild wipers go on by them selfs super slow and my guages go stupid , ive tried everytrhing and checked all my conections 100 times and nothing , any help is a step in the right direction
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is there a way i can speed up the dry time ? like maybe with a hair drier ( wares the GEM at ? ) , i realy dont think its that thow , very similar issue happedned wen my positive cable on the starter coroded , ( clicking , wipers and all the signs of a dead battery ) wen i get home im going to pull the starter and have it tested ( maybe i got the silenoid on the starter wet and it failed ) , anythings posible thow
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Yes any additional heat or air movement across the GEM will reduce the drying time. The GEM is mounted to the back of the under dash fuse box.
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ok so i start messin with it today and i had a loose nut on the main power of the starter , so i go to tighten it and my conector for the starter is ate away ( again and its only like 2 months old ) so i put a new conector on it and go to tighten the lil copper nut on the starter and snap ( twisted the bolt right off the silenoid ) so now i need a new starter and dont even know if thats the issue
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how hard is it to just replace the silenoid ? , the starter is older than 2 months old , i bought a starter 2months ago and then took it back because i found out that the starter wasnt the issue , it was the wire conector for the main power on the starter ( it was all coroded ) and the same issue now
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Oh I see now that you meant the cable was replaced 2 months ago, not the starter. Although it's fairly easy to change the solenoid, I don't recommend it with an older starter. You're much better off replacing the solenoid and starter as an assembly.
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i see , i noticed wen i was under the truck yesterday that the 2 rubber plugs that use to be in the bottom of the starter ( around 2 months ago ) are now out ( any reason they would push them selfs out ? ) ... im picking up a junk yard starter for 45bucks wen i get home ( only reason im doing junk yard starter is because im not even sure if thats the original problem or not )
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I don't get it? Even if the starter is not the problem, installing a new one would give you a better guarantee of it lasting a long time. A junkyard one could go out on you in a month and leave you stranded somewhere.
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true i do see what your saying , i just want to make sure this is the problem and not something else , my luck ill buy a new starter for 150ish and figure out it still needs more work , i just dont want to throw a bunch of money into it and still be in the same boat with a dead truck , plus i can always sell the junk yard starter on craigslist or something , its not realy a hard job to pull the starter either