Turn the key, Won't even click - NEED HELP FAST!!

[George Lowry]

John,

You needn't be embarrassed... There are many of us that have found
the problem to be the "nut that holds the wheel". At least you found
your problem without a $550 tow job off a freeway on a Sunday -- but
that is another story. Glad you got it going. Enjoy your vacation.

George Lowry
'95 WBDA 4203
Spearfish, SD


Adria Haynes wrote:

> Thank you also Frank. The solution was simple and embarassing but
> could very well have been more. It's "fixed" now and I thank you
> very much for your help.
>
> John
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> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "fwernlein"
> wrote:
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>>John, sounds like the starter switch at dash is likely problem.
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> Are
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>>you able to do a few dianostic steps? Use a a voltmeter, and a
>>helper so you have enough hands...and confirm:
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>>*take out dash start switch (disconnect batt first), then
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> reconnect
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>>battery and check the connections for a tight fit and sort out the
>>switch connections...find source 12tv, check for volts, then turn
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> to
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>>on and start and test terminals to see if the switch is working.
>>*that you are in fact getting 12+ volts TO the starter solonoid
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> (big
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>>relay mounted on starter) from the battery. This will be big
>>terminal stud. Check the ground..typically a strap...is it tight
>>and clean at terminal ends?
>>* are you getting the 12vt actuation volts to the soloniod when
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> key
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>>is placed to start? This terminal will be a smaller one...voltage
>>here activates the solonoid, closing the relay, sending start
>>voltage via the "big" battery cable to the starter motor. If you
>>get the volts to the solonoid, but not cranking starter motor,
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> your
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>>soloniod may be problem.
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>>Frank
>>85FC33
>>Woodbridge, Va.
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>>--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Adria Haynes"
>><mrbeebody@n...> wrote:
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>>>Gang,
>>>
>>>Our Memorial weekend trip was semi-ruined when our 1980 35FC
>>>wouldn't stay running due to a fuel restriction problem. Since
>>>then, I rebuilt the Racor, got it running like a top as recently
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>>as
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>>>a few days ago, and replaced all 4 batteries.
>>>
>>>This is Sunday afternoon and we are scheduled to leave for our
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> 10
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>>>day family vacation on Thursday morning - which means today is
>>>critical for preperations.
>>>
>>>I also just read the tutorial on here about how I was supposed
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> to
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>>>have been starting the generator. Like a moron, I thought maybe
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> I
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>>>would do the same with the ignition key and see if it fired up
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> any
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>>>faster. So I turned the ignition key backwards for about a 3
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>>second
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>>>count, then went to start it and got NOTHING. NO click, NO
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> NOTHING
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>>>AT ALL. I know the new batteries are full since the gage on the
>>>dash says so as well as the one where you switch the bus to run
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> on
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>>>generator power - under the dinette in the doorway. I checked
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> all
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>>>the battery cables and all are tight. The interior lights all
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>>fire
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>>>right up with full brightness. There IS power inside the bus.
>>>
>>>My first thought is that I may have a bad ignition switch,
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> since -
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>>>well, you know how it makes that buzzing sound when you have the
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>>key
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>>>on with it not running and the "low air" light comes on? It
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> wasn't
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>>>even doing that - then it started to with the key "on". Being
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>>fancy
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>>>with the key THIS time is the only thing I have ever done
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>>different
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>>>on trying to start it in my life.
>>>
>>>Please, please, please help me gitter goin'. I really need this
>>>thing to run like new. I've got me, 3 kids and a wife all DYING
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>>to
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>>>camp in it in 4 days, our reservation was made over 6 months
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> ago,
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>>>the campground is almost 4 hours away, another guy is counting
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> on
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>>me
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>>>to pull is boat up for the group, and a group of 10 other sites
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> of
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>>>family will be waiting for us - who have already made fun of me
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>>this
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>>>year once because "they paid less for their brand new travel
>>>trailer than I did for my antique - and theirs starts every
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>>time".
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>>>They think they are much funnier than I do.
>>>
>>>I know it sounds like a simple problem, but I already test drove
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>>it
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>>>for 50 miles just last weekend and assumed it was ready to rock,
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>>and
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>>>I don't have much time to consider this anything but panic mode
>>>really at this point.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance if anybody can help.
>>>John,
>>>810-869-2356 if you're not a typer.
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