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Ok, my boy called me up yesterday and says that the front of his car wont lift.
His setup is:
'94 Fleetwood Brougham
2-CCE Competition pumps
4 Italian dumps
2 Prestolite blocks with 6 new ford solenoids
8 batteries
He said when he hit the switch, there was a "funny" noise comming from the switch, and there was clicking coming from the trunk. I figured he had cooked his noid's so that was the first thing I checked, and sure enough they were black and crispy. So we replaced those with new ones.
When he tried to raise it up again there was a series of loud clicks from the back, but no movement. I checked the noid's again and they were ok, so I went over all the electrical connections to make sure they were tight. Then I had him try to lift it with a different switch (pancake) and the noids just clicked a little.
We called the guy he got the car from and he told us to bypass the solenoid block and touch the power from the batts directly to the power to the pump. So I did that and got a lot of sparkage, but nothing from the pump whatsoever.
Could the motor be locked or burnt? What could've caused it? The batteries were fully charged, and only 1 month old. He doesn't run 'em real low either. He doesn't really try to hop at all, but he said that the day before, one of our friends that has a '66 Impala with switches was hopping the caddy a little, but it still worked fine until the next night. Thanks in advance.
His setup is:
'94 Fleetwood Brougham
2-CCE Competition pumps
4 Italian dumps
2 Prestolite blocks with 6 new ford solenoids
8 batteries
He said when he hit the switch, there was a "funny" noise comming from the switch, and there was clicking coming from the trunk. I figured he had cooked his noid's so that was the first thing I checked, and sure enough they were black and crispy. So we replaced those with new ones.
When he tried to raise it up again there was a series of loud clicks from the back, but no movement. I checked the noid's again and they were ok, so I went over all the electrical connections to make sure they were tight. Then I had him try to lift it with a different switch (pancake) and the noids just clicked a little.
We called the guy he got the car from and he told us to bypass the solenoid block and touch the power from the batts directly to the power to the pump. So I did that and got a lot of sparkage, but nothing from the pump whatsoever.
Could the motor be locked or burnt? What could've caused it? The batteries were fully charged, and only 1 month old. He doesn't run 'em real low either. He doesn't really try to hop at all, but he said that the day before, one of our friends that has a '66 Impala with switches was hopping the caddy a little, but it still worked fine until the next night. Thanks in advance.
