Starter problem discovery!

honker

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Like a few others on here I was experience starter difficulty especially in very warm weather after idleing in traffic etc. The symptom was I would hit the starter button and the starter would click but not turn the motor. After a few tries it would take. I replaced all the obviouse things ,relays,connections etc but without success.

I was sitting in my shop just looking at the starter and its location very near the cat box. That cat box produces a great deal of heat that is absorbed by the starter itself. Startesr historically do not function well when they overheat.So I wrapped the starter in insulating header wrap and lo and behold problem gone.

If this is your problem as well remains to be seen, but thought I would share my findings with you....
 
That does make sense good fix congratulations, you may have saved a bunch of us problems we'll keep this fix in mind thanks for the post sure does beat going to the dealer being charged $100 an hour for them to scratch their heads.
 
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