

| Subject: | Re: Bad starting |
| From: | Jeff Diebolt |
| Date: | Tue, 05 Nov 1996 17:11:31 -0500 |
>After cleaning and changing the ground strap, the battery connectors, >and the battery at last my strating problem continue. Did you also check the ground strap on the transmission? >It has begin this summer, I turn the ignition key and nothing except >the fuel pump humming. There is only a click in the starter that can >be heard from behind (I mean by someone near the starter). After a >boosting the engine starts everytime. > >Is someone have an idea to were I should search. The alternator is >suppose to give 12.5 volts (this summer after a test after another >bad starting). Don't rule out a problem with the alternator, 12.5 volts is not great. Recheck it with a good battery, should be over 13 and somewhere in the area of 13.6 after it's run for awhile. If you can give me a few more symptoms I may be able to offer more suggestions. >Thanks > > >Normand Gagnon >gagnon.n@interlink.net >Montreal, Quebec >Westy 85 >Jetta 91 > > > > Greetings from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Jeff & Jean-Marie Diebolt jdiebolt@up.net
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