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Originally Posted by Pete Burton
true-you didn't crank it for longer than 30 seconds at a time, did you? That's enough to kill the starter, ESPECIALLY if it's not a good one... By reading your post I couldn't tell - were you changing the starter on the side of the road or did you take it to a safe place first.
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I am very sensitive to overcranking, and I just crank for 10 or 15 seconds at a time. The second time, yes the engine was hot, but the first time, it was a cold engine. I would crank, let rest, crank....That doesn't mean I wasn't heating up the starter, of course.
It was amazing how few cranks that I got out of the battery, then it would start cranking slowly, and when the battery was dying, it seems like this was the point where I killed the starter. When it was just barely moving. You know, that last crank that you shouldn't do because it is too slow to start, but you just want to GO! My dumb ass.
Yes, Pete, I did do it in an unsafe place. Not on the freeway, but on a busy road nearby. (Amazing how heavy that thing is, and how little extra room there is to get it up in there.) I was just out of options and low on cash. I hope I never have to do that again....
