Ford F53 V10 will not start - Any ideas ?
I have a year 2000 Thor/ Four winds Hurricane on the Ford F53 Chassis. The RV has around 22,000 miles and is in great condition. I started it up today (29 degrees) and drove it about 1/4 mile to an ...
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bycrackey wrote:
the same one that a zillion thieves knew about and use a tiny piece of wire and a pair of pliers to start the car and steal it),
u also have to hot wire the coil/ignition system also or have the ignition to run
just jumping the solenoid will simply turn the starter
bycrackey,
You're absolutely right but, in the older systems, that's what the tiny piece of wire was for. If you ran it from the big battery post on the left side of that relay, to the "I" terminal, you had "Ignition" that way. And there for, using the pliers handles to cross the other two terminals, would turn the starter over, and, you had a running car/truck. I know 'cause we used our friends moms car several times like that.
But, in doing it that way, you had NO CHARGING GOING TO THE BATTERY. So, we could play only for a little while and had to return the car before it died, 'cause we did all this at night.
Scott
