From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2006 - 20:42:22 PDT
Hi Mike,
Regarding this:
What I can't understand is why it worked. All it does is increase the
I can't quite understand it either. When this first happened, I tried
RPM's a little until the engine warms up. You could do the same with
your foot on the gas.
using the throttle, but I couldn't even get the engine to catch. I had
plenty of battery and I have a geared starter, but still no go. But the
minute I rigged
that solenoid to push all the way in, it started right up.
Bruce
Michael Howell wrote:
> Quoting Stu <stuinnh@mvnut.us>:
>
>> Why wire it open when a fix is easy and cheap? Even the sensor is
>> easy to
>> replace.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Stu" Southern, NH USA
>> "Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils"
>> MVPA #14790
>> 1967 M151A1 Jeep 1964 M416 Trailer
>> 1985 M1008 CUCV Pickup
>>
>>
> It was meant as an emergency field repair to get you home, which it
> did in Bruce's case. What I can't understand is why it worked. All it
> does is increase the RPM's a little until the engine warms up. You
> could do the same with your foot on the gas.
>
>
>
> Mike
> Tishomingo, Mississippi
>
>
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