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Old 08-17-2016, 10:23 AM
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One of the intermittent starting problems I had was a loose chassis to engine ground strap. Sometimes it would click several times and then after trying several things to troubleshoot the problem, it would fire right up. It appeared to be a starter solenoid problem. Changed two starters out before finding the problem, with help from this forum.
Yeah but the part that was emitting the click click sound was not the ground strap, but rather the starter solenoid not getting sufficient current due to the bad ground strap?
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