What makes a starter ....

...become what I have heard said is [b:7924a808c8]"gone to ground"[/b:7924a808c8]? Followed by not working. My 8N sidemount (converted to 12v w/alttenator) has done this twice in the last month and the battery was fully charged. After bush hogging about 2 hours and parked it to eat and then it would not do anything no trying no nothing and volts, on the volt meter, was only showing about 10V (remember the battery is showing 13.5v with a volt meter check) I put the handy dandy "made in India" new 12v starter on and it fired right up! The description on the starter read a "new 12v starter for more starting power". Just curious if that is what has happened to the very probably worn out, starter?

Sounds like you have a bad cable or connection. I hope you still have the old starter as it can be rebuilt if needed. Was that low voltage reading at the starter while trying to start?

A reading of 10V's while in-gauging the starter with a good battery would indicate your starter is pull'n 300 plus amps... That's not good... I would say its gone to ground like in a dead short in the starter are something binding up the starter....

Unless you had a amp clamp are a battery starter tester with a volt/amp meter on it about all you could do is preform a voltage drop test on the system to rule out other possibility's...

If the battery is good (sounds like it) yer voltmeter just confirmed a complete circuit ... Try that with a dink'e dash mounted amp-meter ....

different tools for different tasks.

(quoted from post at 05:09:14 09/23/14)
A reading of 10V's while in-gauging the starter with a good battery would indicate your starter is pull'n 300 plus amps... That's not good... I would say its gone to ground like in a dead short in the starter are something binding up the starter....

Unless you had a amp clamp are a battery starter tester with a volt/amp meter on it about all you could do is preform a voltage drop test on the system to rule out other possibility's...

If the battery is good (sounds like it) yer voltmeter just confirmed a complete circuit ... Try that with a dink'e dash mounted amp-meter ....

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"...its gone to ground like in a dead short in the starter ..."

So what makes it a "dead short"?

BTW, the new starter is working great! It definitely has a different sound than the old starter use too, when I hit the button. I stuck the old starter in the box the new one came from and then under the work bench. Maybe a rebuild later to have a spare on hand.

(quoted from post at 20:54:34 09/23/14)

(quoted from post at 05:09:14 09/23/14)
A reading of 10V's while in-gauging the starter with a good battery would indicate your starter is pull'n 300 plus amps... That's not good... I would say its gone to ground like in a dead short in the starter are something binding up the starter....

Unless you had a amp clamp are a battery starter tester with a volt/amp meter on it about all you could do is preform a voltage drop test on the system to rule out other possibility's...

If the battery is good (sounds like it) yer voltmeter just confirmed a complete circuit ... Try that with a dink'e dash mounted amp-meter ....

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"...its gone to ground like in a dead short in the starter ..."

So what makes it a "dead short"?

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You will have to check it to find out...