[T3] Hard Starting

[Sean Bartnik]

To test for a parasitic drain:

Disconnect negative battery terminal from battery. Connect your multimeter in series between the negative battery cable and the negative battery post. Make sure you connect the leads to the meter properly, there's usually a separate jack for current measurements. 

Get in the car, close the doors, make sure everything electrical is turned off, then turn your meter on and measure the current. Start with A and switch the range to mA if the results are low enough. 

Report back your reading. 

Note, do not turn ignition on or try to start car or turn on any large electrical consumers while doing this test. Most meters have an internal 10A fuse, if you try turning something on you can blow your meter. 

Also what is the voltage reading across the battery terminals just prior to one of these hard starts?

-Sean

> On Feb 17, 2017, at 3:09 PM, J. Jonik <j_jonik at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Re/ 71 T-2 Std.   It's been cold out so maybe some starting problems happen...but, my battery checks out Good at the Auto Shop.- Once when start attempt got weaker and weaker, a neighbor loaned me his Jump Start thing and car started right up.- Went home and put battery on overnight charge...even though my gravity tester thing showed all cells right up to the top.  Started good in the morning...with warm battery anyway.- Later that day starting got a little sticky again...cranked, cranked, then started. That's when I went to get battery checked at an auto store.  Battery good.- Next day...hard to start again...but it did.
> So....question is, can there be something funny in the car itself that's maybe weakening the battery after sitting overnight or even for maybe five hours in daytime?    Any way to test for some little juice drainage when car (and radio and everything) is off?
> Does success of the Jumper Box tell us that the starter's ok?
> Didn't yet put in new clean fuel filter.   Does that have bearing on the case?
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