I am glad you got it.
Since you would like to help others before they might follow a red herring I
will share this.
I have been troubleshooting mechanicals & electronics for many many years,
and it is kind of quirky that of all the techniques and fancy equipment at
my disposal I still use the WCFT (Well Calibrated Finger Tip.)
Malfunctioning parts often run hotter than properly functioning parts. The
idea is to think about how something could have gotten to a fault condition.
Check & test ideas or hypothesis. For instance: What led up to the fault
condition? In circuit board troubleshooting I would always tell the newbie
to look for the charred components first. Hey what the heck look for an easy
explanation right away, it should save time in the end. In the case of
starter problems nine times out of ten it is the battery terminals, next the
cables are suspect if for no other reason than they are super easy to test,
put known good jumper cables directly from a known good battery to the
engine ground and the positive terminal on the starter. Notice I say known
good. Very important. I have wasted untold hours because one of my testers
was off or giving wrong readings. Again this can happen if we do not think
about what we are looking for. Science lab 101 stuff.
Anyway I hope this helps. troubleshooting can be fun, I like it better than
wrenchin, that's why I got good at it I guess.
Sincerely,
Brioan Rodgers
On 6/29/06, Tony O <bonesinsc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just for the record...the care finally started up after about 2 months
> of
> sitting! This whole situation could have been solved in much less time if
> only I had heeded the advice of several listers and checked the easy
> things
> first. It turns out, it was NOT my solenoid that was suspect but rather my
> judgement. I should have checked all the cables first as it seems the
> problem was really one of a corroded 4 gauge power cable, the one that
> connnects froom + terminal to the starter solenoid. Unfortunately for me,
> but hopefully not for those who come after me with starter problems, I
> decided to remove the starter from my other peugeot, then had to remove
> what
> I thought was the bad starter from the 86, and then of course put it all
> back together. This took hours and plenty of cursing, all of which might
> have been avoided if I had just checked the cables dirst and bought a new
> cable in the first place (which I eventually did). Live and learn I guess.
> One good thing that came out of it, I did install a relay for the starter
> as
> many of you probably already have had to do.
>
> thanks again for everyone's help.
> vive le peugeot list!
> -Tony O
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
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