Steven Denis wrote:

> In a message dated 2/11/01 2:41:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, wilpho@MCN.NET
> writes:
>
> << Anybody got any good ideas on this?? >>
>  No but here are some bad ones..
>
> pull the starter of and wirebrush the face where it seats on the tranny..then
> clean the tranny area too...put it back and make SURE that the top bolt is
> the first one you tighten....
> Next...check ...heck..CHANGE the ground strap between the tranny and the
> body....
>
> after that? add a  "ford solenoid" to the system like on the old buses..
> you should be goo to go..unless it''s just a bum starter
>
> steve
>
> "Hey! nice Jeep, Mister! "
> "Look kid, it's NOTAJEEP! "

Steve's right. I've had it on a 76 bus, and 80 and 84 vanagons. Never around
home, only on trips, where things got really warmed up.   Relays solved it on
the first two.  The third eventually needed the starter rebuilt.

Larry A.
Chicago
91 GL