[DeTomaso] starter motor studs

[Will Kooiman]

When you move the cable to the battery side of the relay, you are bypassing
the relay altogether and using the relay on the starter instead.

The relays on the starter tend to be better - that's all.

Sometimes cold starts are harder because the gas tends to evaporate.  If you
drive your car enough, you'll figure out how best to start it.  Just pay
attention to what works.  Consider it a low cost theft deterrent.

I might be wrong on the evaporation comment, but it sounds plausible.  All I
know is that my car used to be hard to start if it sat for a long time.  My
solution - drive it every day.  (no comments from the peanut gallery - I'll
have it back on the road soon)

Will.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of SEL
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:10 PM
To: Tom Cabanski; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] starter motor studs

Tom - thanks for the notes and guidance - mission accomplished - the new
starter, as many reported, makes a world of difference - and at $50, how can
you go wrong? - kept the original cables (cleaned connections) but instead
of positive from battery to one side of relay and positve to starter from
the other side they both go to the side the battery positve had been - then
a new 14g or so wire goes from another terminal on the starter selenoid to
the side of the relay where the relay to starter cable had been - not
exactly sure what this change accomplishes - i am guessing it runs current
through in a way that spins the motor better - either way, it does indeed
make it whine like a turbo jet engine and cranks the engine with ease - also
sprang for an optima yellow battery from sam's club as it has the same low
height as the old sears battery.

one thing i still notice, and this brings me to something jack said about an
auxiliary pump for the fuel - cold starts are now the problem - i can start
the car only with no prepumping the pedal and feeding guess at just the
right time after first starting to crank - or after a few trys with the
pedal floored - seems like gas is not getting into the carb - but i thought
if you pump the pedal, that is what you are doing? - any thoughts? - thanks!
stephen


----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Cabanski <tcabanski at tencom.com>
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:59:02 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] starter motor studs

Stephen,
I just screwed them out & took them to a hardware store and found the
correct metric size in a bolt.
I just bolted the new starter right into place.
Not sure why they went with that set up were they used a two threaded
shaft with english threads on one side & metric for the end. 
A simple metric bolt works just fine. You may have to enlarge the holes
on the mini-starter a bit so things line up properly.
Tom

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