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Suupa Dave

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Hey guys, I need some help. I'm having some trouble starting my truck. I am using the ez-start with a hand held ignitor. Some times On the initial spin of the engine it fires up. most of the time I hit the button on the ez start, the engine starts to spin then stops. Almost seems like the ez start doesn't have enough power to keep spinning the engine. I have a fully charged battery. The engine spins fine when i remove the plug. thanks for any re-plys.
 
It spins fine without the plug due to the lack of resistance from compression.

If you switch to a separate plug igniter and disconnect the blue plug wire, you will find the EZ start will work a lot better since it does not have to waste energy heating the glow plug.
 
i think he said hes using a separate ignitor......but even using a separate one , my 3.3 does that when cold ...the ez-start batt are not that good ...they dont last to long if you make them work to hard .....most of the time , I'm able to get it started by pulsing the ez-start ...i give it little bursts to make it turn ......did you try warming up your engine with a hair dryer before starting it ....i have to do that sometimes....i also have more than 1 ez-start batt ...just because they are not that good

just be careful not to overwork the ez-start motor ...if you start seeing smoke come out of it ...STOP ...lol....i burnt a brush in one of my ez-start like that


you also might have a bad ez-start ...my first one had a gear inside ( metal gear) that was to tight on its shaft and was very hard to turn ..thus making the ez-start work allot harder ...i had to grind the inside of the gear with my dremel to make it spin freely
 
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ya also the ezzy start motor may already had a hard start and got hot damege brushes inside ! after this happens the motor may still work but drag ! just get a new ezzy start motor make shure batt is good and charged ! bet this will cure the problem ! you can get the hole ezzy start set up cheep !
motor, gears,wires, for like 35 bucks or get a pull start since you already got a glow plug ignitor! hope this helps
 
wildbill13 said:
ya also the ezzy start motor may already had a hard start and got hot damege brushes inside ! after this happens the motor may still work but drag ! just get a new ezzy start motor make shure batt is good and charged ! bet this will cure the problem ! you can get the hole ezzy start set up cheep !
motor, gears,wires, for like 35 bucks or get a pull start since you already got a glow plug ignitor! hope this helps
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that sounds ezzy
 
Macguyver said:
i think he said hes using a separate ignitor......but even using a separate one , my 3.3 does that when cold ...the ez-start batt are not that good ...they dont last to long if you make them work to hard .....most of the time , I'm able to get it started by pulsing the ez-start ...i give it little bursts to make it turn ......did you try warming up your engine with a hair dryer before starting it ....i have to do that sometimes....i also have more than 1 ez-start batt ...just because they are not that good

just be careful not to overwork the ez-start motor ...if you start seeing smoke come out of it ...STOP ...lol....i burnt a brush in one of my ez-start like that


you also might have a bad ez-start ...my first one had a gear inside ( metal gear) that was to tight on its shaft and was very hard to turn ..thus making the ez-start work allot harder ...i had to grind the inside of the gear with my dremel to make it spin freely
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first, thanks for the respnose. I have not tried warming the engine, I will try that. I have not seen any smoke from motor.....(yet). I did remove the electric starter and relpaced with the pull start.....didnt work either. The pull start kept hanging up, the only way to wind up the string was to loosen the screws on the pull start....it was also hard to pull. It seemed like the engine wanted to start but I couldnt get a good solid pull out of it. I got tired of messin with the pull start and swaped back to elec. I will try your advice and get back with ya. thanks again.

Thanks to all who take time to reply. I will let you all know what happens.
 
heat up the engine as much as you can with the hair dryer ...i would get mine to around 120 deg i think...and it would start right away ...i had to do this all through break-in .( only during cold starts )..and for around half a gallon of fuel ...my engine was really tight ...took a while to loosen up a bit
 
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ok ya your probly right guys also i didnt think about heating the motor lol i live in az !
 

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