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 Grey 57
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 06:05 PM |
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Adz, check the battery cables for good connections. Poor connection at the battery end or starter end will make a click sound (more like a crack).
Is the battery well charged???
If all thats OK check that the starter has not jammed. Try to turn the engine over by hand (spanner on the generator pulley)
If it won't turn then the starter may be jammed. To un-jam it , put the car in gear (with ignition off) and rock the car back and forth. This
should free it.
Lastly the starter could be fried. The clicking sound you hear could be the starter soliniod operating. This thing pulls the starter into mesh with
the flywheel and connects the heavy leads from the battery to the starter.
If there is a problem here you will need to remove the starter from the car.
If you are lucky it might just be the big connections inside the starter. Worth checking.
Confused yet. Hope not. Let us know how you go.
A tip when refilling a VW that has run out of gas is to tip a little bit of petrol down the carb before you try to re-start it.
Most VW's I have had ran the battery flat before the pump pushed fuel to engine.
Be careful and don't drown it.
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 06:20 PM |
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Give it a boost!
Try hooking up another battery to yours. Sometimes that's enough to overcome a recalcitrant starter/solenoid problem and it's easy!
Positive to positive & -ve (earth) to -ve.
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Grey 57
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 06:24 PM |
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Adz , just re-read your post and noticed its a semi auto. The rocking thing to free the starter won't work on these. You would have to try and
turn the motor back and forth with the generator pulley bolt.
The only other thing is if it has a starter interlock thingo that prevents it from being started in gear. If this has packed up then it will not turn
the starter over.
So what you can try is.
make sure the cars out of gear, ignition off and hand brake on really well.
Jack up the car (or crawl underneath if theres room) and bridge the starter terminals with a screw driver. There will be sparkes. The terminals you
need to bridge are, the big one with the battery cable attached and the small one with a spade type connector attached.
If this has the engine cranking over then the probem is somewhere between the soliniod and the key.
If you have a click only then the problem is in the starter.
Now bridge the two big connections, one with cable attached and one straight below this on the starter.
If the starter turns then the problem is in the starter.
I'm all out of ideas now.
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Be really , really, really careful doing this. You dont want a tread mark across your forehead from a runaway T3
[Edited on 21-12-2002 by Grey 57]
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 07:57 PM |
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The semi autos don't have an inhibitor switch, and the trans is just a manual box with a clutch and a torque convertor.
Have you only had the starting problem since you ran out of fuel? Did you crank the engine for a period when you refilled it?
It doesn't take much to flatten the battery if it was already on the way out.
Does the oil & gen light go dim when you try to crank? if they do then this would also indicate a flat battery.
As Grey 57 says try bridging the terminals on the starter.
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