Re: [XJ6 s3 4.2] Non-starter - Part 5

[nick@sn.no (Nick Johannessen)]

[ southern@ox.cgd.ucar.EDU (Lawrence Buja) ]
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| {No, put in the key and turn it. *click* Whats this? *click*
| 
| A click from the starter is good. It means you're almost there.
| Total silence means that there's a bunch more stuff to debug.
| 
| Run a heavy jumper cable from the neg battery post to the engine 
| block. If it starts now, then the neg path from your battery to
| the starter has a bad connection somewhere.

Ok. Went for a walk to the local fuel emporium and bought
a set of jumper cables. Connected the negative battery post
to a handy nut on the top of the engine. Still *click*
Connected the other cable in parallel. *click* This could
prove that the engines ground connection might not be at
fault.

| If that fails, try jump starting from another car.

No cars at hand, but I connected my other battery in
paralell. Still the *click*

When it *clicks* it does sound like something moves, just
a teeny little bit, but I'm sure the starter does get
energized a bit.

I guess this means that the next step is to look at the
positive connections?

Nick
-- 
Nick Johannessen (nick@sn.no) or (nick@jagweb.com)
XJ6 4.2 '70 MOD BRG 5PO "The Beast" (looking forward to spring)
XJ6 4.2 '82 Auto 5PO "Wifes car" (bad, bad car)
JagWebs: http://www.sn.no/~nick/jaguar.html & http://www.jagweb.com/

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