Re: [AMC-list] Finally Made it Yesterday

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also, pull the solenoid from the starter and check it and the
brush holders out.
  Remember back in the day we could fix starters, alas babylon...

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Joe Fulton" <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2011 12:05:18 PM
> Subject: [AMC-list] Finally Made it Yesterday
> 
> It was a beautiful Friday here on the central coast and I decided to
> drive my 65 
> Rambler to work.  It's about 28 miles driveway-to-driveway with only
> maybe four 
> traffic lights.
> Traffic was Friday light and the car performed well.  That was the
> longest drive 
> I've made in the four years or so since I bought it.  I have more
> confidence in 
> it now.  I'll try to drive 
> 
> it to work at least one day a week.  The automatic transmission came
> out of a 
> another 64 American.  I just replaced the front and rear seals and
> installed it 
> so it was kind of a pig
> in a poke.   It shifts better now that it has some miles on it.  No
> leaks 
> either.  One new problem that has cropped up is that the starter hangs
> up 
> intermitently.  I know the ring gear
> on the flex plate is healthy and the drive teeth on the Bendix looked
> good when 
> I installed it, but I suspect that the Bendix might have some
> corrosion on it or 
> there's a problem with
> a weak solenoid.   I have a number of used starters so I can change it
> if I need 
> to.
> 
> Joe Fulton
> 
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