well my engine will not turn over well with the starter.
the engine will turn over with the spanner on the crank shaft easily enough. good compression too.
but to no avail the starter will not have enough grunt to turn it.
result is a slight turn a click or nothing at all.

anyone!

we have changed starters and the wiring is good.
do you think maybe both starters are shot.
going nuts here

Paul

Does your battery have enough charge to turn it over?

Yogie

new with 12.8v and 540cca

Hi Paul
to check whether the starter solenoid is NOT working
with the car in neutral and the RH rear jacked up
place a large screwdriver across the terminals of the Solenoid on the starter motor...
One will have a large cable going to it...
there are two large nuts and threads...

place the screwdriver across those..
and if the solenoid isn't working BUT the starter motor is OK
it will turn over...
there will be SPARKS... lol

the other common problem with cars over 40 years old...
the contacts in the starter switches are dirty or contaminated and don't let enough power to throw the solenoid in
which then turns on the starter motor...

I would guess first off..
the ignition switch...

there is a small wire coming off the solenoid....
replace it with another wire and push one end thru the hole in the floor into the battery compartment,
and the other end onto the terminal where the small wire went..
then touch the other end of that wire onto the + positive side of the battery..
and if the solenoid is OK then the starter will turn once the solenoid clicks in....

I hope you can understand all that...

Lee

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Originally posted by Super1302 new with 12.8v and 540cca

got that, hmmm, will give it a go or......... it will give me an up and go

I hope One of those works for You

it usually isn't the starter motor itself

LEE

what autobug said.

I went through starting my car screw driver for about 2 months becuase I was to lazy to get a new solenoid.

Also put a new switch in which helped.

Check with the screw driver, then work your way back up the system.

Hi
My 68 Beetle is a semi auto that Can;t be started when in Gear

When I first got it on the road..

I had to jack it up at a servo and use the screwdriver to start it

then at a Car show... lol..
[ waited until nearly everyone was gone.. lol ]

and parked on the road a few times and again ..
VW Jack and the big screwdriver

this was starting the engine... in gear... Hand Brake on....
and up on a VW jack.... lol

Not good on soft tar or grass.... lol

and I saw a Large screwdriver today with the end unusable...
I now think I remember what happened to it....

LEE

I had the same problem with my '63 Beetle, which is still 6 volt and therefore prone to hard start problems.

I reconditioned two different starters and both of them acted the same way (I recoed the second one when the first didn't work, figuring that there was a problem with the windings in the first one...)

I then replaced the starter bush in the bell housing/gearbox - starts better than ever.

Try this next - the bushes are cheap, and not all that difficult to replace - even with then engine in the car.

R

Dont forget to check your EARTH strap.....

Yeah - I had the bushing this as well

I solved it by putting a "hi torque" starter in.
They dont need tohe bushing

(sounds great as well )

the Hi-torque starters do sound great and do an awesome job of starting higher compression engines...but compared to the cost of a replacement bush....

R

was the bush, i tried a semi auto starter in lieu of the standard and vroom,
2332cc on her way. f*&k engine is loud, exhaust reverberating off the gound with 48 ida's.
ran the cam in, then back in the shed for some underbody work and refinement .
advancing the fk10 livened the engine up. ye ha.

Awesome news. Glad to hear you have it sorted.

R