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Originally Posted by Mighty Buffalo
A couple months ago I crossed the Mojave River which we estimate was about 3ft deep. Got a little water in the cab, but everything worked fine. Fast forward to Monday, and went to start up and I could hear the solenoid click, but no crank. I pulled the starter and took it to auto zone for testing, and they reproduced the problem. The solenoid engages the plunger, but no crank. I opened it up, found heavy corrosion on the battery side contact. I replaced the contacts and plunger, plugged it all back in, and everything is back to normal.
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If you got yours at Autozone, their starters (Duracrap) are garbage. I'm on a lifetime warranty with them so I can keep swapping them out, I have a 5spd so they are quick to swap. This Summer I hit a deep puddle at high speed, it killed my few month old Autozone starter, just click, click. Had to pop start. I let it dry for a few days too. Cable contacts were all good with conductive grease. So water got inside starter and killed it, it should have held up to a puddle.
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