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Yeah, or just wiggle the terminals on the battery posts
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:17:45
In Reply to: Re: 90 900 Saab Starting issues, notnoel
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, Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:58:39
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Might not be tight. Sometimes they just get pushed on after a repair, and stay tight for a while, then slip. Still enough contact for dash lights and a click from the solenoid but won't carry the current to spin starter.
But wait - - you said she LOST ALL ELECTRICAL POWER WHILE DRIVING? The alternator should have taken up the slack even if a cable came right off the battery. And yet she got it home? Power came back, evidently. Maybe it stalled while running on alternator alone, then weak contact made at battery again, enough to power ignition etc. and it re-started.
So I'd start with the terminals loose or badly corroded, then to bad internal corrosion inside a cable, then to charging system problems. Don't do starter first unless it won't respond to a jump with clean solidly attached terminals.
Or, Scenario Number Two: How's your key action? If it's gummed up and got stuck in start position it could have left starter engaged while she drove, and destroyed the bendix drive. After that the starter will still spin sometimes but not engage flywheel, a kind of higher-pitched unloaded motor noise. If it's that then yeah, a new starter, and definitely do some work on the ignition key cylinder with solvent etc. to clear it out and prevent a recurrence.
You don't describe very well the starter noise that you do get.
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