Re: [Amc-list] Javelin won't start

["Steven F. Brueggeman" <amcer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can remove the connector from the line going to the neutral safety 
switch and use an ohmmeter to see if it's connected to ground. That'll 
reveal if that switch is working.

You didn't park it and leave it in drive or anything like that did you?

-Steve-



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry R. Daum" <mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Javelin won't start


> RE:Javelin won't start
>
> I drove my 69 base 232 Javelin to the car wash this afternoon and
> gave it a good cleaning including the engine. I hosed the engine off
> with the high pressure was after disconnecting the spark plug wrings
> and covering up the distributor. When I got done the car would not
> start. After waiting a couple hours then  I caught a right home with
> the local High school vice principal who was washing his car in the
> next bay. I got my truck and hooked it up and when loaded up the car.
> Even 4 or 5 hours after I washed the engine off the car still won't
> start. I've double and triple checked the distributor wring and that
> seems to be right. The engine turning over and it's getting gas. In
> fact I think I flooded it out too on top of everything else. Right
> now I'm think it's more then likely the starter relay and as fortune
> would have it . I have a new spare. IT may start tomorrow morning
> with no problem. We'll see. Any one have any other ideas on this.
> Right now I'm thinking the starter relay grounded out on the starter
> circuit to the distributor, as that is some thing I did cover up and
> it may be the original factory part. I not sure. I know I've not
> changed it. Pretty much every thing else got changed to newer
> replacement parts or rebuilt. The voltage regulator I know for sure
> is original and the starter relay is old. I know a lot of dealer use
> to run a wire from one terminal of the starter relay to the back of
> the starter relay as the relay has to be grounded and this was always
> a problem with AMCs.  ANY Other ideas??????? Thanks mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> No I don't know it all that's why I have file cabinets. I can look it up.
>
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