Battery just tested good 10-15 min ago at advanced auto.

Upon starting car, or, well, trying to start, the volts drop to 5-6 and car will not run.

Also tried other buddies batteries. no dice.

1992 h22a. manual.

 

alternator?

 

so it goes down to 5-6 volts right when you try to crank it?

or does it do that when you put the key to II??

 

first off, never trust advanced auto or autozone. It sounds to me like the battery is no good, you should try and test a different battery. If its not that there might be a short in your starter solenoid or starter. So the start does actually turn the motor but just not with enough force to get it started?

 

It dips down to 5-6 when actually cranking the engine. of which, it WILL crank, but its slow, like a dieing battery..

And we've swapped batteries with different ones out of perfectly working cars, it gets the same effect.

 

change the starter out with a friend and see what it does.....

 

I've had this problem before... It turned out it was poor grounding. Check all your ground wires.

 

what happens when u roll start it? what do the volts measure with the key on 2? with it running?

 

Try doing these tests:

if u have a voltmeter connect ur positive lead to ur power cable going from the battery to ur starter then connect ur negative post to that same cable but in the starter. If u have more than .5v drooping then ur cable is bad. that could cause slow cranking.
Do the same with ur ground cable. it must not have more than .2v dropped.
* Make sure ur meter is on DC volts.

While doing these test u must be cranking the motor. Disable the distributor connections.

BTW: If mechanical resistance goes up:amperage goes down and voltage goes up.
If mechanicla resistance goes down: amperage goes up and voltage goes down.

If Electrical resistance goes up: amperage goes up and voltage goes down.
If electrical resistance goes down: amperage goes down and voltage goes up.


Modified by jdm_jeners at 2:09 PM 10/5/2006

 

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