200Q still dead, now what?

[Huw Powell]

Joshua Van Tol wrote:
> 
> >Yesterday, I bought a new starter ofr my '89 200Q and put the
> >battery on the charger.  Well, I just got the new starter installed,
> >hooked up the battery, turned the key, and click,click,click.  A few
> >words that I won't repeat here were uttered, then I went through and
> >rechecked all the connections.  All seems fine, and I even tried
> >another battery.  So, now what do I do?
> 
> Look for a bad battery cable or ground cable. You may need to use a
> volt meter to do this. In order to perform this test, hook the volt
> meter to each end of the suspect cable, and try to start the car. The
> voltage should stay near zero. If it doesn't, that means that cable,
> or one of the connections in it has high resistance, and you can
> narrow it down from there.

that's even better than measuring resistance, since it checks the wire
under load.

> You could also try using a wire directly
> from the battery to run the starter, and see if it runs then, which
> would point to a problem in the ignition switch, wiring, or
> associated components.

well, the battery is connected directly to the starter.  if the starter
clicks, the ign sw is doing its job of sending 12v to the small starter
connection - no harm in setting up a switched jumper to that terminal,
too, though, in order to eliminate another variable.

I take it that when the new starter went in its mounting surface was
cleaned well (that's its ground)?

-- 
Huw Powell

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