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Every spring, without fail, my starter fails, 2 times.
In Response To: Electrical gremlin/question ()

It''s weird. It's always the same connection; the lug on the starter where the starter battery cable lands. I know this isn't your gremlin because your starter connection is fine. But it's almost always, every time, a bad connection in the circuit. Heat, changing moisture, and corrosion, some part of the circuit opens.

I clean that lug, the terminal, and I know it won't happen again this season. It will happen next spring, guaranteed.

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