Ignition miss

[tahoelife]

I have a 66 that has a new key assembly and a new starter but every once in awhile it will not turn over and I have to bump or go to rear and "hot wire it" has anyone had this issue and do you think it is a faulty wire?

[Jaems]

when these cars get old. Sometimes you need a relay to give the juice a boost.

This little thing

[tahoelife]

OK that would make sense. So are you just running a wire from the batery to the relay then from the relay to the start and using the key switch to trigger it?

[djdsc]

Here are some threads on installing a starter relay:

http://912bbs.org/index.php?a=topic&t=29560&hl=starter+relay

http://912bbs.org/index.php?a=topic&t=12868&hl=starter+relay

http://912bbs.org/index.php?a=topic&t=15768&hl=starter+relay

[fbarrett]

The situation is usually worst when the car/engine is hot. Before adding a relay (which I eventually did, back in 1971), make sure the connections are all clean: battery, starter, ground strap, ignition switch.

Frank
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[tahoelife]

I have gone through the conections I fear the wire's are just tired. But am not sure about trying to pull new ones. I tried the above links for how the relay is used but they come up dead.

[BryanM]

click the link again. at bottom of the page click the "view debug info"