camper damper
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Jul 31, 2011 20:37:45 GMT
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My mystery starting problem is back to haunt me again the camper as been doing this before but it goes away after a bit but not this time.
This is the problem the camper starts sometimes but sound like i have a battery going flat other times it sound like its got a dead battery but you can turn the key twice and it may start the second time no bother what can be wrong here i have replaced the battery and battery terminals but the problem still stays
Thank you
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bl1300
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Jul 31, 2011 21:16:53 GMT
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That sounds like a bad connection. My first step would be to remove the main lead battery +VE to starter motor assuming negative earth at the starter motor end. Clean it with some wet and dry and do the same to the post it conects to. Then refit and see if it makes a difference.
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Jul 31, 2011 21:24:47 GMT
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yeah that will waste 20 minutes  is the starter lead getting hot when trying to start? |
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camper damper
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Jul 31, 2011 21:41:45 GMT
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No starter lead doesn't get hot but there is a click and fizzing sound from the negative side of the battery once and a while
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Jul 31, 2011 21:59:17 GMT
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clean the earth leads to the chassi etc etc ...bad earth can cause bad slow starting...
it sounds like something or nothing ...
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No starter lead doesn't get hot but there is a click and fizzing sound from the negative side of the battery once and a while that sounds ominous, I would be looking there, make sure the connections are all supa clean and maybe stick a bit of vaseline on em. I'd probably do the same on the engine earth strap for good measure, as advised above by popular children's author Dick King-Smith above. |
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bortaf
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What starter ? the large early or the late geared starter, TBH 90% of the time its the starter burning out and the fizzing is the battery fluid boiling under the neg terminal as the starter sucks the life out of it and overheats it, let it cool for a while and it'll be back to full capasity and spin like a mofo but as the easy route i allway say clean the connections first as it's the easy thing to do and when diagnosing you allways start with the easy stuff first.
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I had this on a zantia turned out to be poor earth to engine, take jump lead from battery '-' to the engine, if it starts ok that's you problem.  |
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Or like the sedona which l fixed at the weekend the solinoid contacts in the starter are had it, which is common for nippon starter motor you can get kit from ebay to replace them, so maybe your van is the same curse word design starter motor. |
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camper damper
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Ok sorry it take me so long to replay i will try all that and if not i will be back
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camper damper
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Ok starter is dead had to go away early this morning went to start the van no joy so got my mate to jump start it and we spotted the starter lead glowing so we pocked about and found the solinoid was melted and falling out
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