RE: [Chrysler300] 300C won't crank from key

["Owen Grigg" <ram300@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

I'm cranking alright, it's the Aussie without crank. They've always been a
bit slower to crank than us Kiwis :-)

Owen 
   

-----Original Message-----
From: John L. Chesnutt [mailto:chesnutt@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, 23 August 2008 11:36 a.m.
To: 'Owen Grigg'; 'christopher beilby'; 'Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] 300C won't crank from key

Hi Owen,

Have you checked the Neutral Starting Switch on the left side of the
Transmission?

John Chesnutt, 300C in Portland, OR 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Owen Grigg
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:39 PM
To: 'christopher beilby'; 'Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] 300C won't crank from key

Check your neutral button slide is engaging the switch on the back of the
pushbutton unit.
>From memory to check it without removing the pushbutton, have someone push
the neutral start button inside the car while you check for power on the
lead to the vacuum start switch on the inlet manifold.   

Owen   

-----Original Message-----
From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of christopher beilby
Sent: Saturday, 23 August 2008 9:57 a.m.
To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Chrysler300] 300C won't crank from key


What is a common/any reason why a 300C would not crank, turn over, when one
pushes in the Neutral button with the key on?
 
I have checked, by temporarily wiring together the two terminals on the
neutral vacuum start switch on the intake, and the battery is 100% OK.
 
And the problem only started when I went to start the car after 2 months and
combination of it's battery was flat, gas not up and a cold morning, so I
used a screw driver to jump/broach the thingo/gizmo that the main battery
power lead goes to, by using blade of driver between power terminal and the
power treminal that the wire that runs down to the starter comes from - just
like one does with say a Ford V8 solenoid as on Mustangs etc.  (have done
this many many times before, never a drama, and did not short anything else
this time).
 
The car starts by doing this, but has lost crank from inside the car.
 
 
Christopher in Oz where this weather here is unbelieavable - where I live is
Aust's driest State - yet by the log book in the car it has been 9 weeks
since last days not cloudy/showery enough to use the car/300, that why
battery flat/etc, and yet away from the coast, grain crops in much of lower
east part are still desperate for one good rain before warm spring winds
begin, and cold!!, it so cold the last month multiple light snow in many
spots just back from the beach, on flat ground - Australia only ever usually
has snow on two small parts of it's highest mounts - about an area of a few
thousand acres, not like now like across huge areas of mutiple states. I
know we are likely spoiled versus much of US and Europe, but I like to use
my 300s, and this weather is beyond normal, beyond most's patience, yet
farmers and dams who really need it have missed what they need.
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