InfernalVortex
Well-Known Member
So my car leaves me stranded today. But more than that, I'm also tired of my heatsoak issues. Chevrolet starters have the starter solenoid integrated into the starter unit and that puts it directly beside my header primaries as they come down. Due to the heat they are expeosed to, the car barely starts when its warm. The starter moves along like a 19th century 3 legged horse doped up on sleeping pills.
But if that wasnt bad enough, the car left me stranded today. So I'm at the parts store picking up half the lower control arm bushings I thought I ordered for double what nice aftermarket polyurethane ones cost (They've since been returned, I'm not going to wait ANOTHER week for more OEM stock replacement style rubber lower control arm bushings) and I go to leave, and the darn car wont start. I turn the switch and the entire universe convened and ensured that my car had no idea of what my intentions were at that particular moment. I attempted to will it into life, but unfortunately the car was oblivious to my powers of persuasion. I had to ask one of the guys at the parts store to help me push start my car, a bit embarassing.
My car is NOT a junk heap, it should NOT need to be push started everywhere. So I'm fed up. I got it home and it did the exact same thing. The ignition switch did absolutely nothing. Then two hours later, it works out of nowhere. This infuriates me even more because now I cant figure out where the problem is nor can I trust the car to take me anywhere if it's just going to randomly not start on me.
So as best as I can figure out, it's most likely the ignition switch, and from what I gather it's a pain to get to and expensive to replace with a new part, so I'm just going to go with a push button start and a remote starter solenoid. It'll get a bunch of my wires out from the unholy header primary hell along with the solenoid and I wont have to worry anymore about whether or not the car will start whether that be from heat or electrical gremlins.
According to these two diagrams....
If I run a wire from the + terminal on the solenoid to a momentary switch, and run the other side back to the S terminal on the remote solenoid, that should work.
I've now got two questions.
1. The starter circuit and the ignition (as in ignition coil) power are independent, correct? So if I turn the key to off with a push button start installed(assuming I bypass the current switch and I dont have a neutral safety switch anyway) it will still kill the engine, right? And if a thief has no key, there is still no ignition power, right? (Not that they couldnt get around that... but Im just sayin)
2. Those diagrams wire the coil up from different solenoids... Im going to assume it doesn't matter which solenoid I use to send power to the coil. Is that a safe assumption?
Or maybe I can just drill a hole into the front of the car and attach a big hand crank to the crankshaft damper. What do you guys think?
But if that wasnt bad enough, the car left me stranded today. So I'm at the parts store picking up half the lower control arm bushings I thought I ordered for double what nice aftermarket polyurethane ones cost (They've since been returned, I'm not going to wait ANOTHER week for more OEM stock replacement style rubber lower control arm bushings) and I go to leave, and the darn car wont start. I turn the switch and the entire universe convened and ensured that my car had no idea of what my intentions were at that particular moment. I attempted to will it into life, but unfortunately the car was oblivious to my powers of persuasion. I had to ask one of the guys at the parts store to help me push start my car, a bit embarassing.
My car is NOT a junk heap, it should NOT need to be push started everywhere. So I'm fed up. I got it home and it did the exact same thing. The ignition switch did absolutely nothing. Then two hours later, it works out of nowhere. This infuriates me even more because now I cant figure out where the problem is nor can I trust the car to take me anywhere if it's just going to randomly not start on me.
So as best as I can figure out, it's most likely the ignition switch, and from what I gather it's a pain to get to and expensive to replace with a new part, so I'm just going to go with a push button start and a remote starter solenoid. It'll get a bunch of my wires out from the unholy header primary hell along with the solenoid and I wont have to worry anymore about whether or not the car will start whether that be from heat or electrical gremlins.
According to these two diagrams....
If I run a wire from the + terminal on the solenoid to a momentary switch, and run the other side back to the S terminal on the remote solenoid, that should work.
I've now got two questions.
1. The starter circuit and the ignition (as in ignition coil) power are independent, correct? So if I turn the key to off with a push button start installed(assuming I bypass the current switch and I dont have a neutral safety switch anyway) it will still kill the engine, right? And if a thief has no key, there is still no ignition power, right? (Not that they couldnt get around that... but Im just sayin)
2. Those diagrams wire the coil up from different solenoids... Im going to assume it doesn't matter which solenoid I use to send power to the coil. Is that a safe assumption?
Or maybe I can just drill a hole into the front of the car and attach a big hand crank to the crankshaft damper. What do you guys think?