Welcome Visitor! Please take a few seconds and Andy D
Active Member
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2011
- Messages
- 1,940
- Reaction score
- 10
- Points
- 38
- Location
- Marshfield MA
- Vehicle Year
- 94
- Make / Model
- The Rat
- Engine Size
- 4.0 OHV
- Transmission
- Manual
- My credo
- to prevent Found On the Road Dead, Fix Or Repair Daily
My rough handling of the starter wire led to a short on the little wire from the fender. Smoke came out and the starter ran on and on until I took the cable off the battery. I let the smoke out of the wire. Another old car trouble fixed. I used about 4 feet of 10 awg MTW stranded and a couple of Yellow rings at either end. I had some loom that was from a head light harness. With a little bit of fitting and trying , I had repaired the harness and had it tied back into its original harness mount points. The 55$ starter seems none the worse for wear. I don't think this was the trouble. I caused this changing the starter. All is well. But, I wanted to work on the BMW 
