[Vwdiesel] Diesel Jeep almost done! Just have some questions...

[Stephen Kraus]

Well heres what makes me think its the solenoid, and perhaps you can clear
it up for me:

Starter starts and begins turning the engine over at normal starting speed,
after 1-2 revolutions the solenoid either disengages or something happens
and the starter just spins, now disengaged from the flywheel.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Roger Brown <r.c.brown at ieee.org> wrote:

> Stephen Kraus wrote:
> > I suspect that is not it, I am using the exact battery and it used to
> > start fine.
>
> Don't make that assumption.  I ran into a similar problem after putting a
> new tranny in my
> '82 VW.  Starter was running slow and sometimes cutting out somewhat like
> you describe.
> Was the same battery and cables, etc. but I figured that battery may have
> been weak so put
> a new one in and the same problem.  Turned out when I repainted the tranny
> while the
> tranny was out, interfered with the ground connection that passes through
> that point.  I
> found that if I added a battery jumper cable between the battery "-"
> terminal and the
> engine block, and it fired right up.  So for a permanent fix, I added an
> extra ground
> cable to the block.  But if the voltage to the solenoid drops low enough
> it'll not have
> enough force to keep the gear extended against the internal spring.
>
> So easy enough to measure the voltage at the solenoid (measured to the
> starter case) under
> load (i.e. while the starter is cranking over).  IF it is good, then that
> is not your
> problem, but if it drops too low (maybe 6-8 volts) the solenoid will nut
> stay pulled in.
>
> > The gears actually have no wear, so I suspect its the solenoid. Is there
> > a way I could rebuild the start myself?
>
>
> --
>
>   Roger
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