[DeTomaso] starting problems

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/13/08 11 51 23, edlebby at yahoo.com writes:


> 2) 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?
> 

Sounds like a bad, stock starter, as others have suggested.   Try putting a 
known good battery (like, from your other cars) in the Pantera temporarily, and 
see if it starts any better?   If so then you have a battery issue.   If not, 
the problem lies downstream.   The starter is the obvious culprit, but check 
for poor connections and corrosion anywhere in the battery cables, not only at 
the battery but also at the solonoid and the starter.

And adding a second ground is a good idea too!

Mike


**************
The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy 
Awards. Go to AOL Music.
      
(http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)