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Rebuilt starter, possibly?
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Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Thu, 8 Nov 2012 07:45:31 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: sounds like solenoid kaputt, Siegfried, Thu, 8 Nov 2012 06:46:53
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One of my C900s came to me with an almost-new rebuilt starter. One day, failed to respond to the key. Went out and saw smoke from near solenoid.

What happened was, the rebuilders were really cheap and they used the shortest possible positive wire down into the starter, from the solenoid. Then that braided cable, uninsulated, ran from solenoid terminal into interior of starter through a rubber insulating block. But it was under strong tension, and over time it caused the rubber to crack and separate, and it was grounding onto starter case.

The grounding, and heat and smoke, happened only while key was turning. It doesn't really fit your case, unless you had just been cranking starter and if your short to ground wasn't as complete as mine was.

I put in a junkyard starter, and mean to fix mine someday, splitting a sleeve of insulation off some heavy gauge wire, then opening it up at slit and fitting it over the braided cable, securing with a zip tie or two. Then add washers under terminal end at stud off solenoid, so it has a little slack in it.

Mine has a sticker that says "World Class Rebuilders. Made in Germany." Not world class enough, in my book, and points up that not everything out of the Vaterland is of the best sort. A typical German would no doubt blame it on a gastarbeiter.

My idea is a long shot I know. Otherwise I can't think of anything in the solenoid's structure that would let it short to ground enough to make smoke, without solenoid being energized.

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