> car has 156,000 miles, and the battery is exactly 5
>years old. It has given no indication it's failing,
>and if it was, then why do the lights work? I
>suspect the starter, but have also heard from friends
>that it could be a ballast resistor or a neutral
>safety
Niles: I just had the exact same problem on my '74
Satellite (same 318, but carburretted) and it was
indeed the starter. $40 at Autozone, lifetime
warranty. Which is good because I'll be transferring
it to the new 360 I'm building. They aren't hard to
change either...i did the starter in ~2 hours,
leisurely, in a parking lot.
Doubt its the resistor...it would at least crank then.
Besides, I've never had a ballast resistor go bad; it
seems to be one of those things like torsion bars that
the other Two cooked up to scare people away from Mopars.
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--Mike Pittinaro
Piles of pitted chrome
Hubcaps along the floorboard
My junkyard-bedroom
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