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Re: Hard starting, dash lts. 700 90

posted by  someone claiming to be L K Tucker on  Thu May 10 03:55 CST 2001 [RELATED]

/// When you say "hard to start," do you mean slow to turn over or long cranking to fire off.

Are you losing radio codes? When it is hard to start does any thing else not work, radio, wipers?

A defective battery cable is a likely suspect if either of those are true. The car may turn over without power to electronics. Start at the positive system wire and trace until the open connection or joint is located. The car must be acting up if it is the battery cable since once the connection closes the readings will all be good. You can place jumpers on the suspect battery cables and see if failures continue. (Negative cable works but could have a intermittent fault.)

If all lights flash when the car is running (alternator supplying power) look for a harness short around the alternator. Look at wires that touch metal and/or could be blown/vibrated and short to ground.





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