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553 likely has a short and won't start
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<blockquote data-quote="Mimu" data-source="post: 35982" data-attributes="member: 4098"><p>It's fixed! Thanks mrfixitpaul for your help! Your suggestions led us to finding the problem, even though the problem wasn't a short. I'm shocked that we didn't catch this sooner. I told my dad to do as you said - he started by putting a test light inline between the battery and the ground cable - only it didn't light up, indicating that there was no short. He tested further to determine that the ground battery cable wasn't even conducting - it turned out that it was badly manufactured. The plastic shielding was not stripped at the cable end - the battery clamp was connected directly over plastic shielding instead of to the bare copper of the cable. I guess that a small bit of the cable was touching the clamp until now, but finally burned up, corroded, or separated causing a fairly complete disconnect, and probably making it somehow warm up when there was any electical load (like the headlight switch being on) - fooling us into thinking that there was a short. The cable was fixed and then everything started working perfectly! -- On a separate note related to Tazza's comments: my dad partially pulled out the starter when he tested it by jumping it. I guess that testing it in place would have been easier and better. I think I read somewhere that some people just use a screwdriver to jump it? And when the time comes to one day do this (since this is new to me): what do you have to do to "hold the fuel shut off solenoid"? Thanks for the help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mimu, post: 35982, member: 4098"] It's fixed! Thanks mrfixitpaul for your help! Your suggestions led us to finding the problem, even though the problem wasn't a short. I'm shocked that we didn't catch this sooner. I told my dad to do as you said - he started by putting a test light inline between the battery and the ground cable - only it didn't light up, indicating that there was no short. He tested further to determine that the ground battery cable wasn't even conducting - it turned out that it was badly manufactured. The plastic shielding was not stripped at the cable end - the battery clamp was connected directly over plastic shielding instead of to the bare copper of the cable. I guess that a small bit of the cable was touching the clamp until now, but finally burned up, corroded, or separated causing a fairly complete disconnect, and probably making it somehow warm up when there was any electical load (like the headlight switch being on) - fooling us into thinking that there was a short. The cable was fixed and then everything started working perfectly! -- On a separate note related to Tazza's comments: my dad partially pulled out the starter when he tested it by jumping it. I guess that testing it in place would have been easier and better. I think I read somewhere that some people just use a screwdriver to jump it? And when the time comes to one day do this (since this is new to me): what do you have to do to "hold the fuel shut off solenoid"? Thanks for the help! [/QUOTE]
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