Date:         Tue, 09 Jul 1996 01:47:36 -0700
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Arnold Schultz <aschultz@smartt.com>
Subject:      Re hot solenoid not kicking


>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
>
        I must just add... About 15 years ago my boss was working on his car
at home, it came down on him, he lived for a few days in pain but died of
complications. Also two years ago at a friend of mines body shop, one of his
workers had a car fall on his head... it was over quickly. Before going
under a car I always brace it with a dead weight such as a stump. 
        If you do not want to fix it properly for good, then wire out a
switch into the engine compartment.

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