>From my past experience it could be the starter or the battery or both.
Basically, if your battery is low, it could force your starter to crank
harder (running on lower current) which will put extra strain on the starter
and cause it to possibly fail. Then again, if your starter is going bad, you
may be cranking longer & therefore draining the battery, which if it is
already running low will just speed its decline.
Kinda the old chicken or egg question...
I always replace my battery when it starts to test low or show signs of
running down. I spend too much time hunting or generally out in B.F. nowhere
to have a battery die with no sign of help for miles. Plus running with a
fully charged batt. is alot easier on the other ignition components.
Duff
'95 SLT 4x4 CC 318 4spd/OD - 3.55 LSD
MSD 6AL - MSD Blaster Coil - Rancho 5000/9000
MSD 8.5 wires - K&N FIPK - F&B Stage I TBI
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Howe [mailto:robbii@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 1:40 AM
> To: DML
> Subject: DML: Cold Starting.
>
>
> All right it's finally time to bug you all about this little
> problem...
>
>
> I have a 1995 V6... and every once in a while... not
> consistently... It
> REALLY doesn't want to turn over in the morning.... Sometimes
> it does...
> sometimes it doesn't. Personally I think it's the battery... and I've
> checked voltage in the morning for a week and sometimes it
> was as low as 10.
> and those mornings it didn't want to start... but then
> today... I got a
> repeating clicking noise... which kinda indicates the starter
> in every other
> car I know... would someone help clear this up for me?
>
> Robert Howe
> '95 V6 4x4 5-Spd
> Bone Stock. :(
>
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