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I bought the M1009 last week and the starter decided to runaway on me yesterday in a Petsmart parking lot. Luckily I knew about this problem and I was ready. It was stuck for less than 20 seconds before I had disconnected both batteries and stopped the starter. There was NO smoke, NO burning smell, battery terminals were still good. I had the blazer towed to my place of work. Kept both batteries disconnected and let it sit until I could work on it today.
This evening, I bought the Prime Line 7-01860-1 solenoid and replaced the broken stock relay. Noticed that the stock relay had just barely begun to melt right at the solid purple wire. None of the wires were melted, they all still had individual strands of copper. So I wired it identical to the pictures I found on here. Connected the batteries and the starter didn't immediately run away....so that was good. Turned the key and nothing. Heard the new solenoid clicking but it just barely tried to crank over. I checked the batteries with my multimeter and both have 12+ volts. Then I ran out of daylight and needed to feed the dog so I called it quits.
I figured I would take each battery out and charge them tomorrow with my power pack. Maybe they'd have enough juice to crank over. If that doesn't work, I was thinking of pulling the starter and taking it to a shop to be inspected/repaired in case the solenoid welded itself together. What about fusible links?
I'm just a young guy with his first project truck. I've tried to research and have read a lot of these threads but half the pages I find on search lead to dead ends and can't be loaded. So please don't jump down my throat. I know this is common problem but I have no idea what to do next.
Thanks for any help or hints in the right direction. Also, if anyone is in Southern CA [San Gabriel Valley] and super knowledgeable about CUCV's, I'd buy a case of beer if you're willing to help. I work in horse racing so I could also get you tickets to Del Mar or Santa Anita.
This evening, I bought the Prime Line 7-01860-1 solenoid and replaced the broken stock relay. Noticed that the stock relay had just barely begun to melt right at the solid purple wire. None of the wires were melted, they all still had individual strands of copper. So I wired it identical to the pictures I found on here. Connected the batteries and the starter didn't immediately run away....so that was good. Turned the key and nothing. Heard the new solenoid clicking but it just barely tried to crank over. I checked the batteries with my multimeter and both have 12+ volts. Then I ran out of daylight and needed to feed the dog so I called it quits.
I figured I would take each battery out and charge them tomorrow with my power pack. Maybe they'd have enough juice to crank over. If that doesn't work, I was thinking of pulling the starter and taking it to a shop to be inspected/repaired in case the solenoid welded itself together. What about fusible links?
I'm just a young guy with his first project truck. I've tried to research and have read a lot of these threads but half the pages I find on search lead to dead ends and can't be loaded. So please don't jump down my throat. I know this is common problem but I have no idea what to do next.
Thanks for any help or hints in the right direction. Also, if anyone is in Southern CA [San Gabriel Valley] and super knowledgeable about CUCV's, I'd buy a case of beer if you're willing to help. I work in horse racing so I could also get you tickets to Del Mar or Santa Anita.