Heat soak & my starter motor

["Paul" <lebaron62@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Heat has nothing to do with it.  The rebuilt starter is probably defective, or 
starting the vehicle numerous times with low battery voltage can damage the 
contact points within the starter.  The starter relay can be checked by using 
the screwdriver jumper test between the hot post and the starter lead.  If the 
starter actuates, its the relay.  PEN




 --- On Sat 04/26, kenyon wills < imperialist60@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
From: kenyon wills [mailto: imperialist60@xxxxxxxxx]
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:18:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: IML: Heat soak & my starter motor

I replaced the starter in my 1973 with a chain parts-store "heavy 
duty"<br>unit.  -Lifetime warranty!<br><br>When the car is stopped after a 
prolonged run on the open road of 20<br>minutes or more, the car will refuse to 
start until the engine<br>compartment/block has cooled significantly, maybe 40 
minute-worth.  This<br>does not happen in stop &amp; go around town stuff, and 
the starter works<br>strongly and well otherwise.<br><br>When the symptom 
occurs, the relay on the solenoid can be heard to lightly<br>click, but no 
physical movement of any sort occurs in the starter.  No<br>audible click as 
heard when the battery is low, so I'm assuming that the<br>entire thing's 
expanded so far that it is just seized up.  Works great<br>upon cool-down 
immediately after.<br><br>I'm suspecting that the starter is not defective, but 
is being exposed to<br>too much heat from the non-stock exhaust pipe that runs 
within inches of<br>the starter.  <br><br>Before I go and try to fiddle around
  with fabricating a sheet-metal heat<br>sheild or buying heat insulating 
wrapping for the pipe, is there something<br>that I'm not understanding here?  
<br><br>=====<br>Kenyon Wills<br>San Lorenzo/SF Bay Area<br><br>196o Imperial 
LeBaron - America's Most Carefully Built Car 
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