Chuck,
Before replacing your starter, I would try replacing the ground strap
between the trans and the chassis. Worked wonders for me! I had my local
ACE Hardware make a cable up for me at a total cost of about three dollars.
Art
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Subject: [DeTomaso] Two dumb techno questions
> Dear Forum,
>
>
> I have two dumb problems to deal with.
>
> 1) Bad fuel gauge problem. The car has been sitting for
> three (!) years during an engine build with the tank drained. Now that
> it is up and running the gauge has gone wonky. It either reads empty or
> flashes back and forth from full to empty erratically.
>
> Is the gauge terminal?
>
>
>
>
> 2) Bad starter problem. The other car has a West Coast
> Starter (San Diego) circa 1997. It always starts up at the first start
> of the day, but any re-start after that is a painfully slow
> "whrrr-pause-whrrrrrrr-pause-whrrr-pause-whrrr" etc. lasting a painful
> 10-20 secs before it starts. Today, I came in from an errand and turned
> the car off and then immediately tried to re-start it. Same thing.
>
> Is the starter bad? It doesn't seem to be the battery.
> This problem has been getting incrementally worse over the last year.
>
>
>
> If its not one thing-----its another,
> Chuck Engles
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