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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
Hi,
My 1995 grand caravan starter is dead I THINK. I am not sure, i drove the truck last night, was fine. Then went to go out this evening and it would not start at all, no noise, lights/battery seem fine. then i checked the connections and let the truck roll back few inches and now it tries to start , but with only a clicking sound, it tries to engage the fuel pump, but to now avail. how easy is it to replace the starter and what tools do i need. if too hard, how much should it cost for a repair shop to do it for me. Thanks Much, CR |
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
Yeah, except the lights stay strong and seem to be fine, so i dunno. Maybe i will get a new battery 1st and see what happens. |
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
well, maybe it is the battery, i will take it to be checked after work
tomorrow, will see. I really dont want to spend alot of money right now on it, but if it does need a starter i will get one, are they hard to put in? never done that before, only solinoids and alternators. ColRadar wrote: > Yeah, except the lights stay strong and seem to be fine, so i dunno. > Maybe i will get a new battery 1st and see what happens. |
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
On 13 Sep 2006 16:49:06 -0700, "ColRadar" > wrote:
> >Yeah, except the lights stay strong and seem to be fine, so i dunno. >Maybe i will get a new battery 1st and see what happens. <snip> Sounds like a typical Nippondenso starter ailment to me...bad/burned/dirty contacts in the solenoid. Don't waste money on a new battery until you check this out. |
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
The soloniod is mounted as part of the starter sounds like it is bad. Give
it a wack with a hammer (A small One) while trying to start it |
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
its the starter
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
I concur with the solenoid diagnosis. I just went through the same
thing with the ND starter on my '95 Eagle. It would click when you keyed it (once per attempt) and not engage the starter. Sometimes it would engage the starter, and then apparently the contact would break, resulting in a short starter cycle and it wouldn't start. Dismount the starter and open up the solenoid. There's nothing rocket science about this. Two or three small screws and the cover comes off, and you'll be looking at a plunger with a big head on it. On opposite sides of the case there are two contacts that pass through the case. The contacts wear from the electrical contact over the years. I went to a local electrical rebuilder and bought the contacts for a buck a piece. My starter hasn't misbehaved in several weeks now. sqdancerLynn wrote: > The soloniod is mounted as part of the starter sounds like it is bad. Give > it a wack with a hammer (A small One) while trying to start it |
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
On 15 Sep 2006 18:57:17 -0700, "bruce" > wrote:
>I concur with the solenoid diagnosis. I just went through the same >thing with the ND starter on my '95 Eagle. It would click when you >keyed it (once per attempt) and not engage the starter. Sometimes it >would engage the starter, and then apparently the contact would break, >resulting in a short starter cycle and it wouldn't start. > >Dismount the starter and open up the solenoid. There's nothing rocket >science about this. Two or three small screws and the cover comes off, >and you'll be looking at a plunger with a big head on it. On opposite >sides of the case there are two contacts that pass through the case. >The contacts wear from the electrical contact over the years. I went >to a local electrical rebuilder and bought the contacts for a buck a >piece. My starter hasn't misbehaved in several weeks now. <snip> This has been a continual problem, as I've said before, with Nippondenso starters since the mid-1970s, when they first ripped off Chrysler's patents to built their version. Now, oddly enough, Chrysler's using the poseurs! |
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help 95 grand caravan starter dead?
The same thing happened on my 1994 GC years back. It was the contacts.
I had the rebuilder do it for me including the re & re. The only thing they did more than replacing the contacts was to put the plunger on a lathe and resurface the contact surface of the plunger so that it was smooth and shiny (not rough and pitted as it WAS). After that my starter never failed. And I had plenty of warning that it was happening, so I had it fixed before I got stranded. On 15 Sep 2006 18:57:17 -0700, "bruce" > wrote: >I concur with the solenoid diagnosis. I just went through the same >thing with the ND starter on my '95 Eagle. It would click when you >keyed it (once per attempt) and not engage the starter. Sometimes it >would engage the starter, and then apparently the contact would break, >resulting in a short starter cycle and it wouldn't start. > >Dismount the starter and open up the solenoid. There's nothing rocket >science about this. Two or three small screws and the cover comes off, >and you'll be looking at a plunger with a big head on it. On opposite >sides of the case there are two contacts that pass through the case. >The contacts wear from the electrical contact over the years. I went >to a local electrical rebuilder and bought the contacts for a buck a >piece. My starter hasn't misbehaved in several weeks now. > >sqdancerLynn wrote: >> The soloniod is mounted as part of the starter sounds like it is bad. Give >> it a wack with a hammer (A small One) while trying to start it |
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