broknindarkagain
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I've been having starter issues since day one. I got my M1009 and it would not start. Just had a god awful grinding noise when you tried to start it. I crawled under it and found the starter was loose so I tightened it back up and it fired right up....but the starters case was cracked because the bolt to the support bracket had broken.
I ordered an eBay starter (I know, they are junk...but it was cheap) and installed it properly secured with the support bracket. Everything worked great.
Fast forward a month. I shut off my truck when I went to the kids day care. I came back out 5 minutes later to start it and the starter ran away. My instinct (remember I have never messed with 24 volt electrical systems until now) was to disconnect the negative battery cable. I did so and the starter stopped. After a few minutes I thought "well maybe whatever got hung up has 'reset' its self and I can get it to start now to get it home" so I set the negative terminal back on the post (front battery) and the starter instantly went nuts again. I removed the terminal but now the truck was doing funny things. The starter was turning the engine very slow so I took the negative terminal back off again. Then the fusable links on the firewall went up in smoke.
This entire time I could not access the other 3 terminals because the hold down brackets sit over them. I rushed into the truck to get tools and eventually got the brackets off so I could remove the other terminals.
I towed the truck home and did the doghead relay mod and repaired the fusable links. When I reconnected the batteries all was good. The starter didn't instantly run away so I tried to fire up the truck. As soon as I tried to fire it up the starter ran away again. I was quick to get to the battery terminals this time so no further damage was done.
At this point I figured maybe I toasted the solenoid in the starter or something. So I took my old OEM broken case starter and the new eBay starter to make a Frankenstarter. I virtually used the nose cone section of the new starter, and the motor and solenoid from the old OEM starter. I put the new frankenstarter in and it worked great.
Here we are a week later and my truck is starting to get slow to crank. It use to crank over fast, but now its acting like a car that has a very weak battery. I read the sticky threads about disconnecting the front negative terminal and what it can do (after this ordeal obviously) so I'm concerned. I've checked both alternators and both batteries. They seem up to par so it is not a battery charge issue. What else should I be looking for? Everything that I can see on the surface looks ok. Are there any other typical things that can burn up when someone goes through what I did?
I ordered an eBay starter (I know, they are junk...but it was cheap) and installed it properly secured with the support bracket. Everything worked great.
Fast forward a month. I shut off my truck when I went to the kids day care. I came back out 5 minutes later to start it and the starter ran away. My instinct (remember I have never messed with 24 volt electrical systems until now) was to disconnect the negative battery cable. I did so and the starter stopped. After a few minutes I thought "well maybe whatever got hung up has 'reset' its self and I can get it to start now to get it home" so I set the negative terminal back on the post (front battery) and the starter instantly went nuts again. I removed the terminal but now the truck was doing funny things. The starter was turning the engine very slow so I took the negative terminal back off again. Then the fusable links on the firewall went up in smoke.
This entire time I could not access the other 3 terminals because the hold down brackets sit over them. I rushed into the truck to get tools and eventually got the brackets off so I could remove the other terminals.
I towed the truck home and did the doghead relay mod and repaired the fusable links. When I reconnected the batteries all was good. The starter didn't instantly run away so I tried to fire up the truck. As soon as I tried to fire it up the starter ran away again. I was quick to get to the battery terminals this time so no further damage was done.
At this point I figured maybe I toasted the solenoid in the starter or something. So I took my old OEM broken case starter and the new eBay starter to make a Frankenstarter. I virtually used the nose cone section of the new starter, and the motor and solenoid from the old OEM starter. I put the new frankenstarter in and it worked great.
Here we are a week later and my truck is starting to get slow to crank. It use to crank over fast, but now its acting like a car that has a very weak battery. I read the sticky threads about disconnecting the front negative terminal and what it can do (after this ordeal obviously) so I'm concerned. I've checked both alternators and both batteries. They seem up to par so it is not a battery charge issue. What else should I be looking for? Everything that I can see on the surface looks ok. Are there any other typical things that can burn up when someone goes through what I did?
