RE: [tech] Automatic Starters

["Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@home.com>]

humm sounds like you have a feedback ground effect unto that wire
(crossed??) letting the battery run x amps, too many through it, no
matter what you do in size it will fry it. perhaps your starter has
a defect causing this if you rewired it correctly that would be my
deduction as the wire from the pole to the solenoid is a rather
small gauge wire (to get the solenoid to pop the starter gear
forward unto the fly wheel. My long exasperating thinking out loud
final deduction is that your solenoid (if you re-wired that wire
properly in its place) is bad. and you need to change it.

Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Sal
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 8:46 PM
> To: VWOT; Scirocco
> Subject: [tech] Automatic Starters
>
>
> I finally managed to install the starter in my brother's
> newly acquired
> Jetta. It also started without any problems.  The old
> starter had been fried
> and I also needed to replace the old connections.
>
> Now I have a new problemo.....upon starting, the wire
> which comes from the
> starter relay to the positive of the battery fried.  It
> literally smoked up
> and turned black.  So I replaced it with a bigger gauge
> wire and it still
> smoked.  Presently, I'm not prepared to start the car.
> Where on earth do I
> start?  Aside from an exhaust leak, the car is great.
> Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Sal
>
>
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