200Q still dead, now what?

[Calvin Krug]

>Earlier, from a state far, far away, Huw mentioned:
>>  Check the wires themselves?  Doesn't the type 44 have a splice in the
>>  battery wire under the passenger carpet that can cause problems?
>
>Yup. BTDTDWGB (been there, done that, don't wanna go back).
>
>First, try jumping the car off from the jump off post in the engine
>compartment.  If it jumps off (starts) fine from the jump off post, but
>doesn't start when you connect the jumper cables directly to the battery,
>that's exactly what my TQW did.  Turned out to be the splice.
>

I found the main problem.  My almost new (December) battery has a bad 
cell.  It shows over 12 volts until you put a good load on it.  And 
the other battery I tried apparently had the same fault.  The good 
news is that it's running again, I found a badly frayed wire on the 
starter solenoid, and I think I found my coolant leak while I was 
under there, too.  But I never did get around to checking the coolant 
temp sensor. Maybe next weekend.

Calvin Krug
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