Archived Truck won't start, is not battery.

[Wyrick]

Yesterday, our 95 truck took about five attempts to start. Today it won't do anything. The battery is fine. I was wondering if it could be the starter. The truck has 200,000 miles it, and the starter is orginal. Plus this is a route truck, so it has seen alot of start ups. Or could it be the solenoid? Or something all together different. Because outside of the bells dinging, and the dash lights it like this truck just died, any help would be great.

 

[Joe G.]

We need a little info about the symptoms. Is it cranking slow? Does it smoke? What have you tried?



If it cranks ok and no smoke try turning the key to start. Leave the key on. Check to see if fuel solenoid has pulled up. If not or you are not sure, turn the key to run. Pull the solenoid up and see if it stays up. Turn the key to start and see what happens.

 

[Wyrick]

It's not cranking at all. Yesterday it would start for little while then die. What do you mean by pull the solenoid up? Plus, where is the solenoid located.

 

[Snow man]

So you have a cranking problem,for one,and once its running it stalls,so you have 2 problem,correct?. I cant think of anything other than low voltage that would affect both a no crank and stalling. Id wire up the shutdown sol once its running. i f dash lights are dying you have a low voltage problem,or fuse,wiring issues.

Possibly the alt is not charging(first check alt fuse in fuse tray under hood), then id check the grid heaters see if it stalls when they cycle,the draw may be too much because of another problem. unhook them for diagnostic reasons until you get it fixed.

 

[Joe G.]

Here is where everything is on your '95:

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If it doesn't crank are the batteries dead? It should at least turn over if the batteries are ok and the starter works. If you press on the fuel pedal does that have any affect?

 

[Wyrick]

It has good voltgage, so we really don,t believe it is the battery. It's not stalling. Yesterday it didn't want to start, which after five attempts it did. But this morning it wouldn't. All the dash lights are bright. It has a good charge. It just refuses to start, it doesn't even try. Not a click nothing, this one is baffling!

 

[Joe G.]

Get a test lead. Attach it to the positive post of the battery. Touch the other end to the small terminal on the starter. Let me know what happens.

 

[LDPetersen]

Sounds like my 95' at 80k miles , just the usual contacts in starter. Made my own from scraps off old electic company transformers. been 90k miles since then.

 

[Wyrick]

Thanks everyone for your help, but he 's given up and have it towed to a garage. There goes some bucks!