Posted by DaninKansas on August 11, 2014 at 14:42:17 from (24.248.193.103):
I've had an issue on and off for years with an old Farmall 350. 90-95% of the time you hop in the seat and hit and starter button and after turning the engine over 3 times it fires up and goes. Every once in the while you hit the starter button and the solenoid clicks and thats it. You might hit the button 3-4 times and suddenly the starter kicks in and everything works like it should.
This spring the click and no start issue seemed to be getting worse so I tried a half arsed fix and replaced the starter solenoid (once in the while it would throw sparks when engaged) hoping that would fix the issue. It seemed to fix it but not totally. Saturday it did it again only no amount of coaxing would get it do more than "click". I added the battery power of my truck to the situation (800 cold cranking amps) and got a puff of white smoke out of the starter for my efforts. Wife dropped the starter off at the dealership and they called and said it works just fine. I described the situation to them and the guy said it probably has a "dead spot" where the starter just won't spin and its probably getting worse as time goes by. He said you can run it until it burns out completely or get it rebuilt - something they don't do or buy a new one (on here they are about $213).
Ever hear of a dead spot? It kind of makes sense to me but then I've never heard of it before.
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