Offroad-Express

every morning when i try to start my safari ( 4.2 desiel 5speed) its like it has a flat battery turns over verry slow then speeds up
im thinking starter motor
annybody have anny better idears ?

shoulda kept to toyota

haha na
u and fj40 ned someone to pull out when we go out 4x4

Take the starter out strip it down and give it a good clean out proberly got mud in it

allmud wrote:haha na
u and fj40 ned someone to pull out when we go out 4x4

to dam heavy to pull that thing out

it will be the batteries bud they need a dam good charge up the starter has been done also the altinator

sweet will charge in the weekend

A few weeks back my safari was doing the same thing, getting slower cranking then one day it wouldn't even start. Spent a while cleaning some corrosion out of the battery terminal contacts then coated them in vaseline. Started up no worries after that.

will drop ya round those bits too

sweet thanks
i have the paperwork here for the cruiser as well
do u still have a copy of the wof sheet

i do somewhere

but will need to be completey redone as tha wof i went for was in january haha

well got the batteries tested to day one was rooted got a new one
thay tested the charging its charging ok made new earth leads
next job will be pulling out the starter and cleaning it out and geting it checked
startd better now with the new bat but still like a dead bat every 5th or so start

which battery was buggered??

best practise would be to replace both as although the other one may test well it will very quickly damage the new battery and severly shorten the life of both batterys.

the left hand side bat was stuffed

I got away with replacing just one

coxsy wrote:I got away with replacing just one

quote of the day "I got away"
in any multiple connected battery setup any cell that has less capacity than the other will cause the other cell to over compensate

still starting and running maybe both were fairly new to start with