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Re: 6 or 12 volt??
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 13, 2003 at 18:37:18 from (209.226.247.133):
In Reply to: 6 or 12 volt?? posted by Farmallkid on December 13, 2003 at 16:07:05:
kid: You nailed the problem in one phrase of one sentence," it turns over once fast and if you don't get in a couple of turns your screwed". Clearly you have ether a bad starter or poor cables. My bet is its cables, which are just too light. Three turns of the starter and they are hot and plain useless. Go with 1 gauge wire and soldiered on ends and run your ground strap right to a casting. I find the best place to get heavy cables is heavy truck repair shops. 1 gauge is what they are using on those big diesels. Take it from me, I am the guy that once started a 6 volt Farmall 300 unassisted by any means at -40 degrees F. I also own 3 tractors with alternator conversions, one of them is 6 volt and has by far been the most sucessful. It has been over ten years and the battery and alternator I installed are still in tractor. I did replace the cables this summer as the old ones were stiff, brittle and had broken covering. I had a 6 cylinder 100 hp Deere, batteries were 6 years old, coming on fall it got sluggish about starting. I replaced all the battery cables with new 1 gauge. That machine was started every day that winter no boosts and much of the time sub zero weather. I replaced the batteries in that Deere 2 years later. If I had a dollar for every battery, starter, generator, etc. that has been thrown out across North America, when the real problem was battery cables, I'd be a very wealthy man.
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