Ok, I’ve been sitting on this a while, waiting to fix it until I actually get my truck over to my house, but I figured – what the heck, I’ll go ahead and ask now…
First question: when I start my truck, I cannot turn it back off. I turn the ignition to off – truck keeps running, what is the cause of this problem? Bad ignition? Bad wiring?
Second question: there is something wrong with the starter! When I try to crank it now, it will try to turn over two – maybe three times and then “click!” it won’t do anything else. Just silence when I turn the ignition to start.
So, I get out, take off the solenoid, put it back on and three or so more times I get to try to start it then “click!” again and – nothing. I have replaced the solenoid, and it still does the same thing. Now I didn’t have this problem until I ran the wire from the starter to the resistor to the distributor. Before that the distributor was hot-wired (which burned up my points) straight from the battery, but the starter worked fine.
The problem is, I didn’t install the starter and I don’t really know what to do about it. I had a lot of help with the truck (not necessarily the right kind) that put in the starter, but now I don’t have any help working on the truck (which maybe is a good thing) but I also don’t get to work on the truck as much as I would like. That’s why I’m trying to get it to my house, but it’s been hard trying to find someone to two it for me as I don't have a trailer.
Anyway, just wanted to maybe solve a problem ahead of time!
Thanks!
~R.
