Truck laid up 6 months

**Mechanic688** · 06-01-2012, 08:13 PM

Been awhile since I've worked on vehicles but it really sounds like a bad solenoid to me, GM's have this problem occasionally and people just buy a new starter when a new solenoid would do the job. Mine went bad on my dually toter and to get home I would have to slide under the vehicle and short across the solenoid to start the truck.

**Copper Head** · 06-02-2012, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Been awhile since I've worked on vehicles but it really sounds like a bad solenoid to me, GM's have this problem occasionally and people just buy a new starter when a new solenoid would do the job. Mine went bad on my dually toter and to get home I would have to slide under the vehicle and short across the solenoid to start the truck.

Turns out my ford has 2 solenoids one on starter and one on fender parts store did not have it in stock, I am going to jump and bypass it and see if i can start it.
The trans interrupt is $84 another relay is on the steering column $24 . So I see i need to trouble shoot cause it can cost $$ .

**gustavus** · 06-02-2012, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Copper Head

Turns out my ford has 2 solenoids one on starter and one on fender parts store did not have it in stock, I am going to jump and bypass it and see if i can start it.
The trans interrupt is $84 another relay is on the steering column $24 . So I see i need to trouble shoot cause I can wast $$ .

Starting motors have four poles, Ford uses on of these poles to engage the bendix gear into the ring gear on the flywheel before tuning the engine over. since you recently replaced this starter with a brand new one we can assume that the contacts are good.

Let us know how the by-pass works out for you.