HI i have a 85 vette my problem is after i run to town and go shopping when i come out 15 mintues later it has trouble starting it acts like the battery is dead you can hear a clicking noise like the batter is weak but its not it new so is the starter. it does start but sometimes it will just go so slow and if it doest start and you keep clicking the ignition it just plain stops wont trun over or anything at all complety dead but let it rest for 5 mintues it will crank over again anu help would be greatl;y apperciated thanks

 

Not sure, but my first thought would be the starter solenoid. even new ones can be bad. First check the battery terminal connections and make sure they are solid. Hope this helps. before long one of the resident experts will post the real answer. Good luck with it.

 

I had a starting problem today too, I got in mine though and turned the switch on and nothing, all the guages were illuminated and every thing seemed normal except when I turned the key it was like there was no battery power at all, not even a click, I got out and rolled the car back and forth and heard a click and got back in and blammo, started right up, I read in my hanes and it turned out to be the brake park interlock, the car has to be clicked tight into park for the ignition to turn over the motor, your problem kinda sounds like the starter bendix gear is binding against the flywheel, you could try shimming the starter, and see if that helps.

 

I bet if you have an amp draw test on your starter on the car, not off, you will probably see it pulling 500 to 600 amps which about 3 times as much as it should be. That means one of 2 things, bad starter or bad connection, B+ or ground. [8D]

 

OK GUYS THANks i forgot to say it is a standrad shift so the putting in to park is not the problem, my battery is new with all new and tight terminal but it does sound like i just have a bad starter solinoid but rember it only does this when its hot then i shut it down for aBOUT 15 or so minutes after it cools its fine .. my nuertrel switch is un hooked so it will start in gear it shouldent need shimed on the starter only reason i think is becase it starts fine when cold am i rite thinkg this or not becase something drags it down a lot then just dead like the one guy said about his but i have a standerd i might get a starter again i ll but in the mean time any ideas i am open to thanks again

 

It sounds like a bad starter to me, open or shorted winding when it gets hot or shaft bushings are worn out and armature is dragging when the starter is hot and expanded.

 

That's what's happening to me. Every one in a while it does it for no reason. My headlights are apart as I am replacing the gears but once that is done I'm going to replace the nuteral switch. Last year I did the starter over twice as well as the alternator twice as well. Seems like a bunch of us are having the same trouble. Before I parked it for my headlight project I was fueingl up and all of a sudden no start. I had some help pop start it and when I got home I tried starting and no problem at all. Everything works fine and I have plenty of power.

 

i know what u mean it embarrasing when u gety gas and the vette wont start but the junky ford beside you starts rite up and leave lol.. but anyhow i think its my starter everone is leaning that way so that means a nother new starter plus i going put my sfaty clutch swith back on some on hear said it has something to do with the curise wich mine dosent work i never ever thought about that switch ..