Slow Start..Weak Battery??

[Mopar Man1]

On my 93 W350,I moved it around in the yard today. It has done this one other time that I remember and I don't know if its just a weak battery or what. Hop in,turn switch on,Wait to Start light goes out,turn it over and it'll just wind over,won't start. Shut the switch off,wait just a sec,turn it back on,Wait to Start light goes out,bump the switch and it fires right off with no problem at all. Is this just a weak battery on it? If not what could it be?



Jimmy

 

[Got Smoke?]

Very possible. I bought my current 97 only 3 months ago, and I experienced the same thing your talking about. Went out to go to work on a cooler summering morning (still not THAT cold) and the motor was slow to turn over like it didn't wanna start and the volt gauge took a good dive. . Went to work and used our battery tester and yep, one battery was bad!

 

[1stgen4evr]

Slow start

Laugh or cry as you see fit from this answer but if you are spinning the motor on the first try and then off/on and it spins the same speed but fires up, you don't have a battery problem. You are experiencing what I call always, sometimes, never problems and if the truck ALWAYS runs with the routine you have discovered that will work, SOMETIMES you will have to do just that. And NEVER worry about it. You can chase the grimlins all you want but till the truck does something absolute, you are just shooting in the dark.



Drive it. It may go away. Some of my always sometimes never problems have.



If you think you have a low battery, get a trickle charger and let it stay on all night. If the problem goes away, maybe you DO have a weak battery.



You could be experiencing the early stage of problems with the on/off solonloid.



You could have air getting into the fuel system somewhere and need to crank a bit more initially.



All of the above applies (or has applied one time or another) to my trucks.



James

 

[dpuckett]

ALso check your battery connections- Mom had a ground (little one that went to the core suport) get corroded and took out the starter relay. THen today, the hot cable was a little loose, and fortunately, she had some tools in the truck, and we tightened up the cable, and VROOM!! I'd check the battery, check the grounds for obvious things, then go with it like James said.



Daniel

 

[JLEONARD]

always, sometimes, never problems

I love it. Oo.

 

[RamAZ]

Slow Start......

Slow to start happened to me late last year. I cleaned all the connections, which were clean anyway, part of battery maintence, checked the water level, put on the charger and let it do it's thing and it seemed to a little better. Well 2 or 3 days later, went out and tried to start and no go. Turned out to be the starter, got one at NAPA (thier best one), installed and things are good.



I didn't realize just how slow my starter was turning until I installed a new one. The only thing bad about the job was getting the bolts out to remove the old starter which was original, thought they would never break loose.



I did have a set of Larry B's heavy duty contacts but chose to save for that day when starter goes out in the middle of nowhere.



JIm