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angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

If you have a good battery and a good starter, somewhere in the circuit is a connection with high resistance. With a 6v system you are more susceptible to resistance issues, which can absolutely be cumulative.

Like was suggested, check where the negative wire meets the frame/block. Also the battery terminals themselves, they have fooled and aggravated me on many vehicles.

What are you meaning when you say you see no resistance? Even a good connection has some resistance, just curious exactly what you're seeing there?

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angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

Valt posted:

I took a video showing basically what I have been doing so that you can see whats going on. Also it should be noted that even if I touch the wires without the switch I get the same result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kPgWMptmFY
At this point I would have a helper bump the starter button while I observed voltage at each connection point starting at the battery until I found where it dropped. I know you said it was good but I kind of suspect the battery or terminal(s). Either the solenoid isn't getting enough voltage to close, or the solenoid is weak.

angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

Valt posted:

I went and had the battery replaced as it was older and they ordered me a new one. After installing the brand new battery the car was very hard to start cold. I drove it like this for about a day then that night it would barely start and in fact the solenoid got extremely hot.
Just going back to this, and the order your issues happened in. I know you also said that voltage was good on the new battery, but were you able to observe it while cranking?

I'm wondering if the battery they installed is either old/weaker from riding the shelf, or undersized.

angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

Well that's good news! Sucks that a brand new starter had to be 'fixed' with old parts, but at least you're rolling again.

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