T&T: Perkins 6.3544 NA won't start

[Paul Brannon]

Check all the connections between the battery and the starter.  A high 
resistance connection will keep a battery from providing the current 
necessary to drive the starter but parallel might provide enough current to 
get past the resistance albeit with a great deal of heat.  If all 
connections are good, then the starter would be suspect.  Rapid clicking is 
usually indicative of insufficient current to hold solenoid on starter.

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob/Myrna Siegel" <thesiegels at erols.com>
To: <trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: T&T: Perkins 6.3544 NA won't start


> For last few days it seemed to crank slowly but started easily when 
> battery
> banks were paralleled.  Now just hear rapid clicking when turning key.
> Starting battery tests OK with load tester.  Engine stop solenoid clicks 
> when
> stop button depressed.   Wire leads to starter look OK.  Tapping on 
> solenoid
> produces no joy.  Suggestions?  Bob Siegel Annapolis
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