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Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor?? tracern1 #771992 08/16/2011 1:40 AM
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 Vancouver Island S squeeze Cruising in the Passing Lane
squeeze Cruising in the Passing Lane S Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 Vancouver Island	yes the resistor is bad, it's showing 12V when you're pushing the pedal because the starter bypass is supplying 12V to the coil - put the jumper direct from the battery + to the coil + and it should run Bill Moved over to the Passing Lane "When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot

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question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/16/2011 1:09 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	squeeze	08/16/2011 1:40 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/16/2011 1:51 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	squeeze	08/16/2011 2:23 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/16/2011 4:15 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/16/2011 8:58 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	3B	08/17/2011 5:12 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/17/2011 1:34 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	rfs56trk	08/19/2011 4:29 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	joker	08/19/2011 4:55 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/19/2011 6:01 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/20/2011 3:09 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	rfs56trk	08/20/2011 3:56 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	squeeze	08/20/2011 4:14 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/20/2011 7:21 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	squeeze	08/20/2011 7:25 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/20/2011 7:48 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	rfs56trk	08/21/2011 4:30 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	Cletis	08/19/2011 6:25 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	joker	08/19/2011 6:43 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/19/2011 10:26 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	joker	08/19/2011 10:41 PM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	amabolter	08/20/2011 12:11 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	joker	08/20/2011 12:52 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	amabolter	08/20/2011 2:36 AM
Re: question about starting issue, ballast resistor??	tracern1	08/20/2011 3:15 AM

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