Mike Benthin: >Otherwise, if I'm not on a hill, I get underneath with my >trusting 14g wire with alligator clips on each end and >attach one end to the pull-off connector on the solenoid >(red wire goes to it), and touch the other end to the HOT >terminal from batter to starter- it should try to kick over. I'm sure this goes without saying, but look: this kinda stuff scares me. I'm completely paranoid about having trucks drop on me (I don't even trust jackstands, I put bricks under the frame after I get the jackstands situated) and yet twice this year I've had the truck fall off a jack. Thought the parking brake would hold it, it didn't, etc. When you jump the starter like this, your chest (or your head) is under a drive wheel. Right? All you have to do is leave it in gear once, and you become a casualty in a Roadrunner cartoon. If you won't fix the starter right, at least squirm up from the rear to hot-wire it so you're not under the wheel. <sermon over. please help yourself to cookies and hawiian punch in the lobby.> --Ken 68 Westy, 71 Bus
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