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- Riverton, Wyoming
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- 1994
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When you try to start you get a click, everything dims like you have a dead battery (Radio presets/clock clear - headlights really dim). Sometimes after turning the key off then on, everything works, other times stays like something is sucking all the current for a little while then recovers.
This spring when it did it, I just left it and later had to jump start. Afterwards the battery wouldn't take a charge, so new battery. Today, It recovered once then stuck. When removing neg cable from battery, something was really sucking the battery down.
My question is, could the starter relay solenoid be shorting to ground and sticking? Sometimes releasing and other times just staying shorted until the battery goes dead. Didn't happen until I replaced the starter awhile back.
BTW it's a 1987 2.3L
This spring when it did it, I just left it and later had to jump start. Afterwards the battery wouldn't take a charge, so new battery. Today, It recovered once then stuck. When removing neg cable from battery, something was really sucking the battery down.
My question is, could the starter relay solenoid be shorting to ground and sticking? Sometimes releasing and other times just staying shorted until the battery goes dead. Didn't happen until I replaced the starter awhile back.
BTW it's a 1987 2.3L
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