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Subject:Re: No turn over
From:Roy Nicholl
Date:Fri, 15 Mar 2019 21:08:11 -0300

Measure your voltage and (if you can) current at the starter and at the ignition switch.   If you bridge the starter (bypass ignition) does it crank?
Check you grounds.

> On 15-Mar-2019, at 20:59, Cunegonde <cunegonde.van.westfalia@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Sigh.
> Zoltan replaced Cunegonde’s clutch a few weeks ago. She stalled a few times under load, presumably dirty fuel/pre-filter from sitting. But re-started immediately each time, including after filling the tank on the 25 mile trip back to Seattle.
> 
> Then I parked her for a couple of weeks.
> 
> Now, with a new battery, she won’t turn over at all. Fuel pump sound, but no solenoid click, nothing. While she’s hesitated on the first start artempt before, she’s always turned over and started, even when she’d been sitting so long the hydraulics/brakes seals rotted!
> 
> Suggestions on where to start... for starting?