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Originally Posted by Tony h
May I ask what your Starter is doing that you feel you need to yank it? I am having starting issues and I am not sure if it's a lack of amperage from my 3 month old battery. My 6 month old Starter Relay not getting enough amperage to the Starter OR the Starter is not giving enough ooomph to turn the Engine sometimes. The Bendix always engages strong but sometimes the engine wont turn, you can hear the Starter hum a bit until finally the Engine Cranks. I thought maybe my points were off causing an Advanced Timing scenario. Not the case, just checked the points. I need to get up there with my car and run jumper cables to the battery and see if more amps makes the problem go away.
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Check the battery and connections. If the starter is going bad, and you jump it, more amps will definitely help it. The very nature of a bad starter is it draws too many amps, so giving a bad starter more amps via jumping with another battery, or using a battery charger will mask the issue. Jumping it proves nothing really.... Testing components does.