Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site vrdxhq.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!vrdxhq!dennis From: dennis@vrdxhq.UUCP (R. Dennis Gibbs) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: another strange starting problem Message-ID: <1970@vrdxhq.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 08:43:16 EDT Article-I.D.: vrdxhq.1970 Posted: Tue Aug 20 08:43:16 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 05:49:16 EDT References: <4174@alice.UUCP> Organization: Verdix Corporation, McLean, VA Lines: 16 Summary: Strange starting problem may have simple cause In article <4174@alice.UUCP>, bea@alice.UUCP (Bea Chambers) writes: > I have a 1981 Datsun 310GX, manual transmission. We have had intermittant > starting problems since we have had the car. It does not matter if the car is > cold or warm. When I turn the key, silence. Luckily, this once happened . . . I own a 1979 Datsun 310GX; although I have never experienced your problem, I suggest the next time it happens, look at the fusible link block on the pass- enger side of the engine compartment. You may have some intermittent connection at that point. You did not specify if your lights, horn, etc, work when you experience this problem, so I cannot say exactly which connections to check, but I do know that if one of the fusible links (or the connection to it) is broken, absolutely nothing will happen when you turn the key. Dennis Gibbs