Apparently my office is a starter graveyard. In the past two weeks two of my cars have given up the ghost once the arrived at work. I'd much rather see them keep me *away* from work than *stuck* at work.

Alright, so I just want to make sure I'm testing things correctly before I pull the starter out. For good measure, I replaced the solenoid this afternoon but the car still didn't want to start. By not start I mean this:

Turn key, dummy lights come one, turn key to start position "bzzzt" then everything goes dead for a little while. Repeat.

Once I replaced the solenoid to no avail, I touched the hot lead from the battery to the starter cable coming off the solenoid (bypassing the solenoid). From my understanding, if the starter were any good this would make it jump to life, yes?

Lady Bird is an automatic and has the neutral start switch on the column. I don't have any reason to believe that this is causing the behavior, especially since it goes "bzzzt" and everything goes dead for a minute.

I'd love to drive her out on Saturday to the Shanty, its been a season of no shows for me. If you've got a hot tip, let me know.

Coupe

61 Tudor Wagon
200 I6, Fordomatic