Slow turning over 6.5 GM Diesel
Looking for some help with my 20 year old 6.5 GM Diesel. Just recently it started turning over real slow when starting. We replaced both batteries, same results. Checked connections at battery aga...
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We replaced one battery cable clamp, swaged, not bolted. Broke all the connections, cleaned and reinstalled with dialectic grease. Still no help.
Normal humans cannot get to the positive cable on the starter when it is bolted in. We tried extensions with crow feet, dog bones on extension, nothing in my professional rollaway tool box could reach, so we took the old starter out.
At almost a quarter million miles I would not put an old starter back in even if it was the cable connection, so I bought a brand new (not rebuilt) starter from NAPA, my lucky day, normally $240 but they had some kind of sale if you bought 3 other items you got 20% off. So I got the starter and 3 different light bulbs for $190.
Son and I enjoyed working on it though it took two of us to do the job. Two big bolts hold it in, but there is a third bolt and bracket you can't see easily holding it to the block. Any way, that motor spins so fast now, you don't even need glow plugs. Wow, it was such a gradual decline we both forgot what it was supposed to sound like when starting.
Thanks all for the help and the confidence to do this job. Your knowledge is appreciated. All the best, Hans.
We replaced one battery cable clamp, swaged, not bolted. Broke all the connections, cleaned and reinstalled with dialectic grease. Still no help.
Normal humans cannot get to the positive cable on the starter when it is bolted in. We tried extensions with crow feet, dog bones on extension, nothing in my professional rollaway tool box could reach, so we took the old starter out.
At almost a quarter million miles I would not put an old starter back in even if it was the cable connection, so I bought a brand new (not rebuilt) starter from NAPA, my lucky day, normally $240 but they had some kind of sale if you bought 3 other items you got 20% off. So I got the starter and 3 different light bulbs for $190.
Son and I enjoyed working on it though it took two of us to do the job. Two big bolts hold it in, but there is a third bolt and bracket you can't see easily holding it to the block. Any way, that motor spins so fast now, you don't even need glow plugs. Wow, it was such a gradual decline we both forgot what it was supposed to sound like when starting.
Thanks all for the help and the confidence to do this job. Your knowledge is appreciated. All the best, Hans.
