Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Help with starter, on bench and I have ?

[Shelby Griggs]

I took the starter off to install the Larry B heavy duty contacts. Got the contacts installed, and for some reason got paranoid and got my meter out.



The small terminal has continuity to the case. That seems like it might be a problem when I hook the juice up????? Because the small terminal hooks to the solenoid coil which hooks to the main battery terminal at the other end, that continuity goes all the way though to the case, that again seems VERY wrong???? It seems to me I will have a direct short here of big proportions.



Anyway, I am afraid to put this back in and melt something down.



On the small solenoid terminal just inside the case there appears to be the stub from a wire. Is there supposed to be two wires hooked to the small solenoid terminal inside the case?



Looks like the spring on the plunger and maybe body of the plunger itself had some sort of lube or grease. Is there a recommended lube for this, or was it just dirty?



Enough of the questions. My truck is a 2001. It appears to me that these came with the HD contacts, as I had plenty of meat left, although one side was wore quit a bit more than the other. IMHO, you don't need to replace these, and certainly not at 100K. I guess I read too many stories of the starter sticking on the 12V's that I thought I would be proactive. Now looks like I may of instead been destructive. Hopefully the big banjo and LP portion of the project will be better. My motto lately seems to be fix it till you break it



Shelby

 

[Thomas]

Check your PM for help with your continuity concern.

 

[Shelby Griggs]

All OK

Thanks Thomas. The page you sent helped, decided all was normal and put truck back together, and it all works fine, except for a small fuel leak at my FP sensor, will tackle that tomorrow.



Shelby

 

[Thomas]

Glad to hear you're running again. I've had a set of Larry B's Super Contacts sitting in the shop for two months. One of these days I'll get in the mood.

 

[Midnite]

Please don't send answers or solutions via PMs unless there's a privacy issue, or something else requiring the answer to be private. Nobody else can see the PM, so nobody else can benefit, which is what the TDR site is all about--the sharing of information.



I'm curious about the site you guys are referring to--can you post the url to it here?



Thanks,

Mike

 

[Thomas]

Please don't send answers or solutions via PMs unless there's a privacy issue . . .



Thanks for the suggestion - a privacy issue is exactly what it was.





I'm curious about the site you guys are referring to . . .



So am I - after carefully reading this entire thread I can't find any reference to any site.

 

[Midnite]

I'm curious about the site you guys are referring to . . .



So am I - after carefully reading this entire thread I can't find any reference to any site.

I guess when I read Shelby's reference to the page you sent him, I took that to mean web page. Sorry.

 

[Thomas]

Attached scanned page sent to private email address.

 

[Shelby Griggs]

Thomas,



When you get ready to install the Larry B contacts, make sure you have 10mm 12 point tools avaialble. I could only get a socket on one of the 3 bolts, finally ended up using a box end wrench on the other two. Because I couldn't get a socket on them, I torqued by guess, torqued the one to spec. (32 lbs) and then felt of that with the wrench and then did the other two about the same. As I mentioned in the first post, my 2001 had very little wear and they appear to be the HD contacts from the factory. I think I could of easily reached 200K plus, doesn't seem to be the critical area as on the 12V trucks.



Shelby

 

[Thomas]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm actually able to get the socket on all three bolt heads using various extensions.



I'm at 110,000 miles on a model year 2000 truck. I have no idea how the contacts look - hopefully as good as yours did. I'll replace them one of these days soon - in my shop rather than somewhere on the side of road.