[DeTomaso] starting problems

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/13/08 11:51:26 AM, edlebby at yahoo.com writes:
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> whenever the car stops, after fully warmed up, and i try to restart it, the 
> starter motor is extremely sluggish, might turn over once...pause a second 
> or two...again...and so on - the only way it will restart is if the pedal is 
> at WOT - at first i thought it was the starter engine...but then JT said it 
> was probably the battery - so put new connectors on the battery cables, cleaned 
> the zf ground and the starter wires - that improved things alot for awhile - 
> but now i am back to where i was (even worse) - thoughts?
> 
This could be the result of a minor carb malfunction, but my first move is to 
add a SECOND large diameter ground wire running from a shiny bare spot on the 
subframe to either the engine block or the ZF cases- sometimes both! Then I'd 
swap the stock starter for a modern gear-drive mini-starter; there are many 
brands our vendors sell that fit properly & will spin a high-compression engine 
far better than any stock one. My 12-yr-old McLeod mini-starter- based on the 
Hitachi starter motor, spins a smoking-hot 10-1/2:1 compression 351-C almost 
as rapidly as when the engine is cold. All gear-drive starters are about half 
the weight and physically smaller, so the starter is unaffected by header heat 
without the need for a shield. Try these & let us know how they work- J 
DeRyke




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