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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Technical Discussion - Beginner / Repair => Topic started by: aveatr1 on November 07, 2010, 07:19:26 PM
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On my 92 tracker, sometimes I turn the key and only get a click out of the starter, after multiple attempts it will finaly start. I was thinking that I'm going to need to replace the starter or slenoid. Then I found on RockyRoad Offroad, that they have a fix for the "dreaded" clicky starter. It looks like a replacement wiring harness and relay for $23 dollars. Has anyone done this or had luck with it? They make it sound like it is a common problem. It would be a cheaper fix than replacing the starter though. Any inputs, thoughts?
Thanks Joe
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The clicky starter problem is a Samurai issue, you
have a bad solenoid on your starter, you can replace
the whole starter or just the solenoid but that's what
is wrong.
I had an issue with this also, the end of the solenoid had
got loose and stopped making contact, I robbed a replacement
solenoid from a Metro and swapped it out about 3 years ago
Wild
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After finaly getting my new motor running it started with the "clicky issue", and while I was working on it I jumped across the battery solenoid wire to the solenoid coil post, and the solenoid just pulled in like it was new. After doing this a few times I got to thinking that my starter switch was going bad, and that the bigger motor and starter was burning the contacts. Then I read on one of the boards that it was a common Zuki thing. So I ran the start switch wire to a relay and out to ground, then took a hot lead off the fuses next to the battery to the relay and out to the solenoid. This gives just a little more voltage/ampreage to the starter solenoid, and for the short while I have used it, it has not had the "clicky issue" even once. Price ?, one relay that was left over from projects and three feet of wire and a couple wire ends. While I did piggy back it on a 30 amp fuse, you only use it how often?
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The clicky starter problem is a Samurai issue, you
have a bad solenoid on your starter, you can replace
the whole starter or just the solenoid but that's what
is wrong.
I had an issue with this also, the end of the solenoid had
got loose and stopped making contact, I robbed a replacement
solenoid from a Metro and swapped it out about 3 years ago
Wild
Or you could just beat the piss out of it before you start it :P
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I've done that before, got so bad I had to have someone
turn the key while I beat on it :o
Wild
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Would that be considered a remote starter?? :laugh:
Thanks guys, I'll just go with replacing the starter.
Joe
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yea sometimes you can get along for awhile with a started with a snapped rod. i went almost two months on one beating it about every four starts.
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this happened to mine, i just had a bad brush and a long wrench fixed that :)