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Car has power.. everything works, just wont turn over unless its kick started. Just want to make sure thats the starter?
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Not sure what you mean by kick started, but a good way to check the starter is have someone turn the key over while you smack the starter with a hammer a few times. If it starts to crank over, then you need a new starter.
Chris wrote:Not sure what you mean by kick started, but a good way to check the starter is have someone turn the key over while you smack the starter with a hammer a few times. If it starts to crank over, then you need a new starter.
if you do this, even if you didn't need a starter before, you will afterwords. our starters are a permanent magnet style, the magnets wrap around the armature. you smack the starter, the magnets break. the starter may never work again.
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You're right, the started can be damaged if it is hit too hard. Maybe smack wasn't the best word to use. Tapping on the starter with a hammer can free it up if it is beginning to fail, much like what is done with a fuel pump. The best thing I should have told him was to check for voltage at the starter when the key is engaged first, then, if he has voltage, try tapping on the starter to see if it starts spinning.
lol, gotcha.
its the starter, my buddy tapped on mine while i cranked and the car started to turn over. thanks guys.
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if by kick starting, he meant push starting like you do with a manual trans i thought doing that on our cars had the possibility of overheating the cat converter.
Something else i was going to mention since this thread is about starters, i was out earlier this morning and had gotten back in the car and went to start it and either didn't turn the key far enough or something because i got this sound like the sound it would make if you tried to start the car while the engine was running only my engine wasn't on yet. My question is, is a sound like that mean the starters on it's way out or is there a certain distance if you will you have to turn the ignition key when turning it over.
Mines been doing the same thing ben, about every other week. i leave the car in gear and rock it back and forth and it starts right up. Don't drive the car often enough to worry bout it yet, probally fix it sometime in the spring.
Bill wrote:if by kick starting, he meant push starting like you do with a manual trans i thought doing that on our cars had the possibility of overheating the cat converter.
how would one have anything to do with the other? show your work.
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How would one have anything to do with the other, who knows rich just thought i had read that somewhere that on some cars maybe not ours that push starting overheats the catalytic converter.
The cat I have on my car sucks anyway, on tony's it shot all its insides out his exhaust rofl I'm waiting for mine to do that.
Problem is mine is for sale and someone wants to look at it this week. lol!
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Bill wrote:if by kick starting, he meant push starting like you do with a manual trans i thought doing that on our cars had the possibility of overheating the cat converter.
I kind of thought that's what you meant, but I was just making sure.
