My car is bein mean to me again!

Eos

Oh Heather Oh yeah... I want your pink taco

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Well I just had to walk about a mile home in 5 inch heals! I was driving around getting job applications, and I came out and got in my car and it wouldn't start! I just replaced the battery a week ago, and the alternator is less then a year old. I guess it might be the selanoid. I'm taking it out to the track tomorrow for our first time. I hope it's fixed by then.

 

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zwhitr

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fastmustangII said:

Well I just had to walk about a mile home in 5 inch heals! I was driving around getting job applications, and I came out and got in my car and it wouldn't start! I just replaced the battery a week ago, and the alternator is less then a year old. I guess it might be the selanoid. I'm taking it out to the track tomorrow for our first time. I hope it's fixed by then.

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Been there done that minus the 5 inchers How do you even walk in that.

get a voltmeter and measure the voltage running and off

12.5 off
14.5 running

its either the alt or regulator

 

Eos

Oh Heather Oh yeah... I want your pink taco

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I can drive a 5 speed in them, so I can walk in them.. just quite uncomfortably lol

And thanks for the info =)

 

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Does it crank over and not fire.. ? Or does it just click.... Did you try to jump the selenoid ( if you do and it fires.. bad selenoid.. if it doesn't fire.. selenoid isn't bad ) Also check to see if the selenoid is properly grounded.. it gets its ground from the inner fender well.....

Btw, get a real 74!!! jp

 

Eos

Oh Heather Oh yeah... I want your pink taco

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We're going to check it tomorrow. I tried to start it and nothing happened what so ever. It didn't even make a click noise. What do you mean a real 74?

 

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When you replaced the alternator did you replace the regulator as well? Small box on drivers side inner fender? Check that too they sometimes go bad.
PS looked at your stang ETC on your sig sight. all I can say is...

 

Eos

Oh Heather Oh yeah... I want your pink taco

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No, we didnt replace the regulator. I guess we will check it all tomorrow. Thanx for checkin out my stang site =)

 

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I dont mean to hijack your thread (cuz i dont think this really counts but...) I am having the same problem... except I cant pin down the source... My cobra keeps shorting out the wire harness (the part that connects to the + side of the solenoid that powers everything in the car) and then I cant start my car... thought it was the alternator... got it checked at the repair shop and it is fine... replaced the voltage regulator and it still shorts... tonight (after temp. fixing it) it shorted again and I unpluged everything from the bat. (i mean everything, the alt., volt., inst. clust., tach, headlights, stereo, everything) and it still sparked when i tried to hook it back up?? I'm at a loss...

 

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cobraii74x

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The same thing happened to me once.. I just tighted the bolts that hold the selenoid into the inner fender well.. billion sparks flew and everything was fine...

And about the 74 thing i was sayin about how your header panel is 75-78 and your gas cap is above the body line It was just a joke

 

69stang351

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Jun 27, 2004

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well I found the problem that was making it arc, the wire going to the alt. has been rubbing against the metal hose to the powersteering pump and was grounding out there. but the wire is trying to burn through the insulation again. I am going to use my electrical tester on it and find out what the problem is today, .

 

Eos

Oh Heather Oh yeah... I want your pink taco

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Jun 27, 2004

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Well my boyf fixed my car, he just cleaned the battery cables lol Oh yeah, and my brand new battery has a mystery hole in it, and its been leaking battery acid....

 

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Jun 28, 2004

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fastmustangII said:

he just cleaned the battery cables

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This is very common with a new battery install. As soon as you hook the thing up, corrosion begins at the junction between the cable and the post. In a couple of weeks to a month, it mysteriously refuses to crank. You should have tried MacGyverism #43 - spit on the terminals. It's actually worked for me in the past.

It's happened to me enough times in the past that now I always smear the posts with dielectric grease, use those goofy little felt washers, and once it's all tightened up I spray the terminals with that awful red stuff.

 

Eos

Oh Heather Oh yeah... I want your pink taco

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Jun 28, 2004

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My dad usually puts a little oil and grease on them, but we didnt have any at the time.

 

98CobraClone

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Jun 28, 2004

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I had the same problem with my II. One time the ground cable went bad.....replaced that and it ran like a dream. Then my solenoid went bad. Then the regulator......I'm keeping my fingers crossed hoping the starter doesn't poop out.

 

Cool Wheels

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Jun 29, 2004

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My solenoid went out in -30 degree Celcius weather once (=damn cold degrees F). Turns out a simple whack with a hammer would have released the spring that had frozen stuck, keeping the circuit closed - which is kinda the opposite of what happened to you. The starter was chugging and chugging.

This would have been no big deal except for that it was moving day and I was only halfway thru about 500 miles(did I mention it was damn cold?!)! My starter was fried somehow by all the fun so I was dead in the water. And I had 2 (live) cats in the back of the car and goldfish (they died a cruel cruel frozen death that day). The cats made it though and are now very happily been harrassed in our backyard by our 2 dogs.

This is only one of a couple stories of how I was betrayed by a vehicle in the middle of nowhere. British Columbia is a big, wide, lonely, remote place with wolves and all types of hungry yellow eyes in the dark.

I have a new story - read my next post!

 

Eos

Oh Heather Oh yeah... I want your pink taco

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Those poor goldfish =(