From: Everette (194cbteng@pchnet.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 17:44:30 PDT
Esteemed listers!!!
I need some help - or at least some sympathy - I have an M37 that I have had
for several years and just lately it has been hard to start - for the last 4
or 5 years to start the beast you pulled out choke and stepped on starter
button -switch on of course- when it had turned over just a few seconds you
pushed choke in and truck would start.
Now::::
if it does not start this way you will have to pull start it - the more you
try to start with starter the harder it is to pull start - for it is
flooded. If you do not choke it a little it will not even try to start. If
you follow procedures outlined above and it starts and runs for a few
seconds and dies you just a well get something to pull it with - when you do
you will only have to pull maybe 20 feet -but if you try starter some more
it has to be pulled farther before it wall start - this morning I tried
several times to start with starter - was on trailer and therefore hard to
pull. Wound up using starter to back off trailer and then had to pull it
several blocks before it would start blowing black smoke all the time.
P S truck has about 11,000 miles on it. And when I first got it the engine
had been changed and it took several months to get it to start first time -
was off so bad I had to pull oil pump to set it so that distributor had
enough travel to adjust it -- I used the starter several hours before I ever
got it started the first time.
I have come to conclusion that perhaps starter is drawing so much current to
turn engine over there is nothing left to fire it with.
Would appreciate any suggestion you could make off list -- selling truck is
not an option. HAHA
Everette
Still around the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. Though
I have often passed them by, a day will come, when I shall take, the hidden
paths that run west of the moon and east of the sun.
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