Tall T
Well-known Member
I just now fired up my '53 Chev 235.
I serviced the starter and installed it before a previous startup attempt. It is a simple floor button start, no solenoid, but with a new 6 Volt battery, I got no action at all out of the starter.
Here's the question for the electrical wizards out there — which is practically everyone but me:
When I last used the truck, 18 years ago, I had been driving the starter with a 12 volt battery sitting in the foot well of the step van, but the rest of the setup is and was always 6 volt.
So this morning I took the starter out and apart again to run some tests on it . . . field coil continuity, testing for grounds to starter frame and grounded brushes (insulated ones). Everything was fine so I put it back in the truck.
No go until I connected a 12 V to it and it cranked to beat the band. After trickling gas into the carb (from my seat which is handy) I got fuel from the tank and it fired up and purred.
So finally . . . the question:
Once a starter has been powered by 12 volts can one not simply switch back to 6V ?
Thanks,
Terry
I serviced the starter and installed it before a previous startup attempt. It is a simple floor button start, no solenoid, but with a new 6 Volt battery, I got no action at all out of the starter.
Here's the question for the electrical wizards out there — which is practically everyone but me:
When I last used the truck, 18 years ago, I had been driving the starter with a 12 volt battery sitting in the foot well of the step van, but the rest of the setup is and was always 6 volt.
So this morning I took the starter out and apart again to run some tests on it . . . field coil continuity, testing for grounds to starter frame and grounded brushes (insulated ones). Everything was fine so I put it back in the truck.
No go until I connected a 12 V to it and it cranked to beat the band. After trickling gas into the carb (from my seat which is handy) I got fuel from the tank and it fired up and purred.
So finally . . . the question:
Once a starter has been powered by 12 volts can one not simply switch back to 6V ?
Thanks,
Terry