WS6
01-13-2007, 05:09 PM
I have never seen this happen before but it happened today on a 66 427 vette. This car is nearly a 100 point NCRS car. When you tried to start the car the starter would continue to turn even after turning the key off and removing it from the ignition. We were not trying to start the car so it never fired off. It would just turn over and over until the battery was disconnected. Thank goodness for a quick disconnect. Anyway, we tested the switch, the wires, and eventually decided to replace the silenoid after testing it and thinking it was the culprit. It wasn't the problem. Luckily I had a 71 454 vette that I could pull the starter off of. I did so and the 66 started fine and acted correctly with that starter. Oh and once it would do it's run on thing, I could disconnect the battery and then reconnect it shortly there after(within a minute) and have the engine start turning over on its on even with the ignition switch laying on the floorboard of the car.
Has anyone ever had this happen to them? Any idea on what it could be? If you had walked up to me and asked me if the starter motor itself could cause this I would have said no way. This was completely weird to me. The owner will send his factory correct one out to be rebuilt and hopefully they can tell us what happened when they pull it apart for restoring. Thanks
Has anyone ever had this happen to them? Any idea on what it could be? If you had walked up to me and asked me if the starter motor itself could cause this I would have said no way. This was completely weird to me. The owner will send his factory correct one out to be rebuilt and hopefully they can tell us what happened when they pull it apart for restoring. Thanks