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Will Not Start
93 spirit
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Guest_Col_*
Posted 06 March 2009 - 11:11 AM
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I have a 93 Spirit V6 3.0 that wont start. When I turn the key I can hear the fuel pump and the starter relay buzzing not clicking. The starter and starter solenoid work, the neutral safety switch works, I bought a new starter relay, and I know the ignition switch is at least sending power to the relay. I checked all wires for continuity and there is power to everything. I don't know what else to do. Any ideas/suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Posted 06 March 2009 - 11:37 AM
Battery or battery connections are the next obvious thing. Check battery voltage just before and during cranking. Should not drop below about 9.5V while cranking, should be over 12V before cranking.
Battery clamps can look clean and tight, but be so resistive that starter will not turn. Be sure to remove and clean them, don't just rely on appearance or a multimeter reading.
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Posted 06 March 2009 - 02:18 PM
Are you saying the starter is spinning the engine and it won't start? If that's the case the next thing would be to see if you have fuel (you can CAREFULLY dribble a little gas or starter fluid down the throttle body and see if it starts and dies), spark (pull a plug wire and test) and compression (has the engine jumped time, is the distributor spinning).
Or that the starter isn't working? If this is the case, have someone hold the key to start and whack the starter while the key is in start.
The 3.0 LeBarons I've owned both had the starters fail, I just replaced them with $12 junkyard starters of the other design (one design is Bosch, the other Denso). And I had one refuse to start when it dropped the timing belt but that was easy to tell because the engine spun over too fast.
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 05:54 PM
Thanks for the input, i got it started. I think it was a loose connection between the ignition switch and a gray four pin plug...as soon as i wiggled it it started right up.
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