Re: 5587 Starter Woes times two

Posted by PackardV8 On 2012/2/5 22:00:20

BTW, don't whack the starter too hard with a hammer. The cast mounting flange can break off or some other damage done. Ok to hit it a good whack but only about enuf to drive a 2" finishing nail worth of force.

I'm assuming it's delco. The solenoid is a actualy a solinoid with built in relay. Sometimes the relay portion of the solinoid can hang up. BUt only if the relay portion was not rebuilt. It is easy to rebuild unless the parts are very bad. It is more or less just a clean up of the heavy gauge contacts inside of the relay portion. Most mechanics won;t do it.