just a note. even though you buy new parts don't mean that you have bought a part that works. sometimes I have bought new parts for a car and after buying the parts and installing them on the car to find out that my car wasn't fixed, after many hr's and many $$$ later I have found that sometimes a new part can be a bad part. I went through 4 starters on my old truck. before I found one that worked,,, although the starters I was buying came from autozone. and they were rebuilds, as I tried 1 starter and found it was bad, autozone was willing to trade it out for anouther. .. moral of my story is the parts on you'r car may be new .but that doesn't mean that they will work even if you buy a part ( say from autozone ) that has a life time warrenty. never means the part will last forever. actualy most parts stores don't belive the average customer will own there car for more than 5 yr's , and if many of you have had this happen to you. < I have bought a part for a car
10 yrs ago for an 82 cyrysler when that part went bad on me I took the part off and took it back to the parts store with the original box and warrenty papers. once in the part store. the guy's there acted as if I cursed them when I asked if I could swap it in for a new one.. after a few hr's they did replace it.. but it was like pulling teeth . I could prove the part had a life time warrenty and my name and the part was in there computer for the warrenty. but since they had nolonger carried that brand they didn't want to honer there products they sold in the past.. I would suggest that you .test each part on the car and make shure that each part works, starters can be tested on or off the car by using jumper cables. battery's can be tested using a hydrometer and a load tester. you should be able to rent or barrow one from a local garage if you dont have one . also you can buy them and add them to you'r collection. you can also test wiring using a testlight
that you can buy for under $10. and have a friend turn on the key switch. I hope you get it fixed..
RandalPark@xxxxxxx wrote:
I was finally able get a healthy neighbor to help me change the starter on the '68 Crown Convertible today.
After we did that, it still didn't run. Oddly, someone had already been down this road before with that car. It had a new battery, starter, relay, ignition switch, & neutral safety switch. The thing is, all of that stuff had been done over 20 years ago and the car had not been driven enough in all those years to get those parts dirty.
With the new starter we put on today, and all those parts, I was really stumped. We didn't even get a "clack" when we jumped the terminals on the relay. I determined that we were getting juice to the relay, and I determined that the ignition switch was getting juice. The last thing was the two wires to the starter. We grounded the terminal down at the starter and it cranked. I then decided to run a jumper wire from the other
side of the starter (smaller terminal) up to where that connection went to the relay. It started!
That means that the smaller wire between the relay and the starter has a break. Hard to believe. I then tested the old starter that came out of the car. Remember, it was new 20 years ago, but hardly used. It didn't work. That means that even if I had figured out the wire problem with a test light, it never would have turned over with the other starter.
It fought me every step of the way, and caused another former owner a lot of grief too. But now it works. I even found the socket that I dropped when all this began for me last fall. The next step is to wash it!
Paul
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