More starter trouble

Turns out that brand new made in china solinoid that they put on is no good. When it get cold it sticks. I took a crescent wrench and tapped the end of it and then it was okay. It did it to me one more time after that though so looks like I'm gona have to tear it off and try and get some waranty. The jobs not bad but it's the 100 mile round trip that's a pain. Especially when I want to get to work.

I'm a little concerned about the turbo on it yet. It's leaked a little bit of exhaust out from around the turbo since I got it. There's a ever so slight trace amount of oil there now. Scared it's going to fly appart next.

Ryan

Turns out that brand new made in china solinoid that they put on is no good. When it get cold it sticks. I took a crescent wrench and tapped the end of it and then it was okay. It did it to me one more time after that though so looks like I'm gona have to tear it off and try and get some waranty. The jobs not bad but it's the 100 mile round trip that's a pain. Especially when I want to get to work.

I'm a little concerned about the turbo on it yet. It's leaked a little bit of exhaust out from around the turbo since I got it. There's a ever so slight trace amount of oil there now. Scared it's going to fly appart next.

Ryan

Hello,
Take your batteries to to a battery shop and have them checked.A low battery will burn contacts in starter.
Thanks Bob

Going to try and talk to him tomorow. He was gone from work today. It's billed as a delco solinoid but I believe it's usi or something like that on the solinoid. Can't remember now for sure. Wasn't impressed anyways when i went to start it this afternoon.

Both batteries are new bluox. After siting outside last night at about 5 above they spun the engine over good this morning. Both batteries hold a chage good yet.

Ryan

Wow, didn't expect you to be back so soon😉 😉

With your cold temperature starts that 40MT starter is probably getting a pretty good work out trying to do the job of the 50MT....still the solenoid shouldn't fail so soon. If a standard replacement won't cut it there are upgraded versions with better contacts.

It's definatley on it's limits turning it over in the cold. Think I read it's rated for 880 ci or something like that. The 339 Is right in at 850 ci I believe. I don't know what temp they base those on. Gets allot stifer in the cold, that's for sure. I try not to crank it over for very long periods. Hopefully it'll hold for a few years. Once it starts it usually doesn't shut off untill the job is done. Course once it's all warmed up it's not so bad to turn it over. The decompresion helps allot too. At least it doesn't have to spin it over as hard right off the start.

Somehing is definatley up with the solinoid, it's been started 3 times now. two of those times were in the heated shop. Today was the first cold start since the rebuild on the starter.

Ryan

Can you post a picture of that starter and how it's wired up.

Later Bob and I wrote a 10 page "paper" on this problem with Swishy's help on the ACME site. I'd share a copy with you on this site if I knew how to load a document. We wrote a pretty good description of how to diagnose what the real problem is AFTER I tried to fix the problem by the "replace parts one part at a time" method. All of the components can affect one another and make it look like it's the solenoid when it turns out the solenoid is just displaying the symptom caused by other components.