Re: Starter Relay

[stans4@ix.netcom.com (Stan Schaefer)]

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:01:07 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:

>Can somebody point me to specific instructions for installing a starter
>relay?  I had the dreaded "let me cool off or I'm not starting for you."
>yesterday.  It was 110 degrees with the "heat index" (so many degrees that
>they have to index them?).  
>
>And I skipped arizona this year because I didn't want to drive a vw in the
>100+ heat :-)  Now it's HERE.
>
>Anyway, I'm sure that I need that starter relay, and also, I was not able 
>to use a screwdriver to start the bus when the same thing happened to her.
>
>ah well I am a dummy, help me out if ya can!
>
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You can get a kit from Gene Berg for $10-12(several years back) that
has the relay and some miscellaneous connectors and lengths of wires,
plus full instructions, or buy a three terminal Ford starter
relay(cheap) and just the instructions and save a few bucks.  If your
starter is bad, it won't help that at all.  I put one in because my
ignition switch contacts were all chewed up and I didn't want the same
to happen to my new, high-priced replacement('71 Squareback).  I'd
pull the starter and clean it up or replace it first, then go put in
the relay.  It does help in extreme conditions, plus your iginition
switch lasts longer.  The last(and only, so far) starter I bought was
about $35, rebuilt, from the local chain auto parts place a few years
back.  The old one's windings had totally disintegrated, no insulation
at all left.  Obviously a bad rebuild.