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re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
Originally Posted by axis11
You are jumping the positive wire.
Im asking you to run a wire so you can eliminate the possibility of a faulty ground. Or do as RonJ said and measure resistance. Sanding or good looking grounds doesnt guarantee anything.
Ohhh.. So with jumper cables one to the neg and just touch the starter anywhere?? Never done it this way
re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
Originally Posted by tony_2018
Yeah there are 2 grounding points near the driver side dash. I know about this because I couldn't get the power door locks, windows to work. Then I remembered to check for ground and sure enough there was one I missed because it was sitting behind a bulky harness.
re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
Originally Posted by lostforawhile
thats the problem, never buy anything electrical from them, a bad starter will work fine out of the car because there is no resistance to the motor turning, but with it having to turn the engine, there won't be enough current flowing across the solenoid contacts to turn the motor, 90 percent of starter problems are bad contacts in the solenoid, they use the cheapest **** re builders there are, and if a part can barely meet spec, it goes back in
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Hmmmmm....i was kinda thinking the same thing. But my car does do all kinds of weird things soooo idk..
re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
Should be able to see it by the lower kick panel, above the a white rectangle control box for the alarm. One grounding point is copper and the other is just a ring terminal. Can't miss it because theres a bunch of wires going to them, mostly black colored wires. They both go to separate harnesses.
re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
easy test, if the starter there now isn't working, hook a wire to the solenoid terminal, the small terminal on the starter, wire it through an inline fuse to be safe, and touch it to battery positive, make sure the car is in park or neutral, if the starter still doesn't work ,you have ruled out any issue in the car.
re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
Originally Posted by lostforawhile
easy test, if the starter there now isn't working, hook a wire to the solenoid terminal, the small terminal on the starter, wire it through an inline fuse to be safe, and touch it to battery positive, make sure the car is in park or neutral, if the starter still doesn't work ,you have ruled out any issue in the car.
re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
Originally Posted by tony_2018
Should be able to see it by the lower kick panel, above the a white rectangle control box for the alarm. One grounding point is copper and the other is just a ring terminal. Can't miss it because theres a bunch of wires going to them, mostly black colored wires. They both go to separate harnesses.
OK I'll look into that tomorrow morn. I have an OEM Honda alarm so...would it be in the same place?
Re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
even if it's working now, any electrical you get from autozone is probably going to fail soon anyway, I wish I had taken pictures of the alternator I took back for a friend of mine, brand new "rebuilt" it looked like someone had taken a drill to the bolt holes and wallowed them out, there was grit and dirt visible on the windings, and this was straight from the rebuilders, they take them from scrap yards, and anything that looks like it might be salvageable, goes right back in, the idiot manager at that autozone tried to argue that it didn't matter that the bolt holes were screwed, and it would "work" just fine, not for 120 bucks it sure wouldn't, maby from a junkyard, but not rebuilt. Like I said, find out what brand the local car sparkies use, and use that, they don't want to eat the labor from crap parts having to be replaced, so they only use good stuff
Good^. Was this done when the key didn't work to crank the engine? If so, there are additional multimeter tests that can be done to pinpoint the problem.
Good^. Was this done when the key didn't work to crank the engine? If so, there are additional multimeter tests that can be done to pinpoint the problem.
Yeah. I just opens the hood and did what you said. Well I'm all ears on more of the test
Re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
if voltage is reaching the solonoid terminal with the key turned over, then you can pretty much rule out everything inside of the car, take off your grounds, clean them really well and clean the area where they contact the body, you can have an invisible layer of corrosion which can stop a starter from getting enough current
12-19-2014, 08:35 AM
re: 99 em1 si with h2b - 5 starters in one month! wtf is happening?
