Well it turned out my added ground did not effect the funciton of the
starter sufficienly. When I got to my destination today, It simply would not
turn over. Luckily, my destination was parting out a vanagon. So, we took
the 2 year old rebuilt 2.1 starter off it, threw it on mine, and IT WORKS!
It turns over SOOO fast and smooth, like a modern car!

So the moral of the story,
battery was weak.
Grounds sucked.
But the starter was bad.

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
BOSTIG in the back
'87 SUNROOF Syncro

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:39 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:

> I added a 4guage ground cable from the starter strait to the frame
> (Attached to one of the cradle to frame bolts on the Bostig Conversion).
> Along with replacing the battery, it now starts great!
>
> Hopefully this will hold.
>
> Now I have a spare battery which i'm going to need for my syncro anyway (No
> battery in there).
> I think there is still some life in that battery.
> I believe it was a grounding issue mostly.
>
> If I run a new cable, it will be 4guage. This seems sufficient.
>
> -Craig
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I used 4 gauge wire from a cannibalized jumper cable set and ran the wire
>> thru the
>> battery box vent tube.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:58 AM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> So i'm going to go get some cable and make the run.
>>> Would you guys all suggest 2/0? Or can something thinner be used (since
>>> it's
>>> running parallell).
>>> If you leave the old cable in place, how do you route up the new one into
>>> the battery box? Is there space sufficient to run it through the same
>>> grommet, or must you drill a new hole?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>