jibbby
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A few days ago I took my FJ80 Toyota Landcruiser up to the mountains to do some local snow skiing, powered up the mountains no problem to 7000 feet elevation...It drove great....
I Turned off the motor and went skiing for half a day, came back at mid afternoon and the car wouldn't start... I thought ok dead battery, bad alternator, maybe a alarm malfunction that is killing the ignition, and lastly maybe the starter motor and or cylinoid, but I was hearing no clicking when turning the key...
This is what I did next-
1) I got a jump start, no dice, no change...
2) Checked the alarm, battery connections, battery charge, etc.. All seemed good...
3) At this point I was getting nervous and desperate, no autoparts stores around and no tools either...
4) I then grabbed a metal rod from my jack kit, got under the car and banged the heck out of the starter motor...Bingo!!! The car cranked right up, I smiled and drove home...
5) If that hadn't of worked I would have ran a direct wire to the starter cylinoid from the battery as an absolute last desperate resort...Luckly it didn't get to that point...
Now, I have cranked the car maybe 40 times since and no problems, do you guys think I need to worry about this one time problem and change out the cylinoid or should I forget about it?
I Turned off the motor and went skiing for half a day, came back at mid afternoon and the car wouldn't start... I thought ok dead battery, bad alternator, maybe a alarm malfunction that is killing the ignition, and lastly maybe the starter motor and or cylinoid, but I was hearing no clicking when turning the key...
This is what I did next-
1) I got a jump start, no dice, no change...
2) Checked the alarm, battery connections, battery charge, etc.. All seemed good...
3) At this point I was getting nervous and desperate, no autoparts stores around and no tools either...
4) I then grabbed a metal rod from my jack kit, got under the car and banged the heck out of the starter motor...Bingo!!! The car cranked right up, I smiled and drove home...
5) If that hadn't of worked I would have ran a direct wire to the starter cylinoid from the battery as an absolute last desperate resort...Luckly it didn't get to that point...
Now, I have cranked the car maybe 40 times since and no problems, do you guys think I need to worry about this one time problem and change out the cylinoid or should I forget about it?