dont have an explaination for ya it seems sometimes that just happens. i was changing out the exhaust on my bus a few weeks ago and same thing, i hit it with a hammer and its back to normal.

 

did you try putting the original start back in after the new one? i think it might just be a slight case of user install error and you were more careful when installing the new starter than reinstalling the original.

not bashing on your skillz, but it happens :lick:

 

By the time we installed the second starter, it was almost 2:30am. But, after the car didn't start with the original starter, I assumed the gears didn't line up properly and removed it, inspected the starter and then put it back in. It still didn't start.

I didn't do anything special when I put the second starter in so I don't think install error had much to do with it.

[Im not offended at all by the user install comment lol] We even tried to tap the starter and still nothing. Guess it's just one of those things?

 

I've heard of people having issues witn starters if you tighten them to hard

A way to check a starter is to connect the wires to it and just hold it up against the block to ground it and turn the key and it should shoot and and turn really really fast

 

Why does that not sound like a good idea?? Holding the starter while ground it? So basically Im going to be in the middle of the circuit?? NO thanks LOL.

 

Lol nothing happens. Your just paranoid. Its like touching the battery terminals nothing happens

 

A better idea would be to secure the starter in question to the bench with a vice or c-clamp and such. Connect the "-" terminal to ground and run a 12V source to the "+". A quick connect/disconnect should suffice (don't wanna kill the 12V source ). That's what we did in auto shop to test starters after we rebuilt them.

 

Testing the starter under no load is *not* an indication that the starter is good. I found that out the hard way, for me, a starter install is not something I wanted to do two weekends in a row.

 

with lawn moewr starter i hooked it to a part of the frame with vise grips, and then ran the battery to it, and that is an easy test.

btw i have also fixed a nonworking starter with electronics cleaning spray, open it up, spray it real good, let it dry, put it all back together, and voila!

 

I wonder if I can just take the starter to Autozone and have them test it..