Re: Hot Start Syndrome

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 17 Aug 00, at 7:54, Jaime Gurrola wrote:

> That's what I'm calling it.  When my '67 Fastback runs for extended
> drives, of say 40 miles on the hwy, she will refuse to start via the
> ignition switch.  I've talked about this before in"Starter Woes"  I went
> to GBE and bought the relay kit that it supposed to deal with the
> problem. Now what happens is that the starter kicks in when the key is
> turned to the first position and continues until the ignition switch is
> turned off.  I then thought that the switch is bad so I went and
> reconnected the wires as before ( actually, it was just one wire) and it
> operated normally.  The starter only engaged when the switch was turned
> all the way to the "second" position.  So, the switch is still good,
> right??  My other guess is that the relay is faulty??
> 
> What say you??

Sounds to me like you wired the relay to the ON wire from the 
switch rather than the START wire.


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Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054

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