Flexplate was a good thing to check. They, meaning starters pull a lot of amps. But, what I hear you say is this. Heat, is doing some things. Thermal expansion making the bendix to flexplate distance to change. And heat causes the resistance of copper to increase.
Double check, at the part store, the battery and starter. Then check cables. What you must determine is the battery cable to the starter is good. Is the ground good too. Poor grounds in the engine bay to the battery are important. We, meaning our process will eventually get to the grounds between the engine-Frame and chassis later as we find if the voltage to the stater solenoid is low. That can be checked with a meter and have someone turn the key to start (cables disconnected) and measure. I can explain more on that if you want. You have to do those things first. I know you did them already but they have to be done agian to be sure. mike ----- Original Message ---- From: John Nasta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: chevelle-list@chevelles.net Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:05:24 AM Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] starter & starter wiring Thanks. These have been rebuilt starters. They work fine until I try to start it while hot. The one in July fried when I shut it off to get gas and tried to restart. The last one fried when I shut it off and then realized I was not in a legal parking space and tried to restart. I spun the flexplate yesterday and did not see any bad teeth on it. I am not using any shims. However, I have to question whether it could be a physical problem like that because the thing that seems to be fatal is trying to start it when hot. Also, changing the starter seems to fix the problem. I'm also wondering if pulling current directly off of the battery is sending too much amperage to the starter. Don't know enough about electricity to know if that's possible. I always thought that a thing would only draw as much as it can draw, and there is no such thing as too much available amperage. Of course this always has to be fixed when it's raining. I'll be buying another starter today and I'll let you know what happens, other than me getting wet. John Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In a message dated 10/26/2007 3:22:20 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> I'm having some bad luck w/ starters > > what brand is the starter?? i have had that happen with rebuilt ones, i > switched (actually the store where i bought them "upgraded" me to a > A/C after i > brought about 6 of the others back) to a new A/C brand and everything was ok > > Harlan > > > ************************************** > See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
