[sammyg2]

Years ago, went to the pomona swap meet in the 914 turbo just after I got it running.

It started raining right after I paid the $12 gozillion for parking.

I found a parknig spot and sat there waiting to see ift he rain was gonna blow over. It only got worse.
After a while i decided to heck with this, I'm outa here. Onlist problem was the started didn't wanna work.
So there i am, laying under the car in a 1" deep puddle of water in fricking January, using a screw driver to short across the poles to engage the starter.

It worked but I couldn't have gotten much wetter if I had jumped in as swimming pool.
Kinda scarred me and now I'm allergic to starter problems.

The next day I replaced the starter and solenoid, added a second ground strap, replaced the connectors, fixed the ignition switch, and added a hot start solenoid.
I hate fricking starter problems and made darn sure I never had another with that car.

If my 3 year old truck developed starter problems that happened more than twice I'd trade the POS in.