i'm having problems starting my challenger. I take a new battery, throw it in the car start it....it runs fine until i shut it off, then it refuses to start again, i just end up suckin the juice out of the battery!!! i changed the ground cable and the pos. cable to the starter, jumped the car and it started fine, then i turned it off for 10 minutes (after a good 20 minute warm up) and it wont start again.. i'm charging the battery as we speak, but i dont feel i am solving the problem...HELP!!!

i just tried the car again with the batt at full charge, and it spun fer about 10 seconds before it just went dead... this is frustrating

defintion - won't start = won't start but turns over,

or

doesn't turn over?


check the relay

my vote is to get the battery tested.

hey make sure all of your accessories are off there could be an bad draw from one i had the same problem, my blower had an bad ground, charge the battery up and then turn everything off

have you had any other problems recently before this started happening? Long ago I had a problem similar to what you are describing that was caused by a failed ignition module.

what does wont start mean? does it turn over and not run or does it not turn over. if it doesnt turn over, you probably have a bum battery

i have the battery charger out, this is the 3rd battt. i have tried in the car, all read full charge, yet, everytime i try to start the car, it simple feels like i dont have enuff juice to turn the car over...would 11.5:1 CR be a factor in this?? do i need a high powered starter or something?? i can spin the starter motor fer about 10 seconds until it starts to slow down and run outta juice, the car never used to have this problem...i did get it running last night fer about an hour....ran fine, but wouldn't start when i tried it again later on....if the alternator was pooched it would've died while running right?

Check the grounds for corrosion including the starter to block. I've had a 13 1/2 to 1 engine and never had starter/cranking problems. Check the grounds and the starter.

If the alternator was dying, usually they will still put out enough juice to run the vehicle, but they won't charge the battery.

A battery should not die after only 10 sec of cranking

BALLAST RESISTOR!!! Change that and she'll fire up. They go without you knowing and all it does is crank till she dies. Mike

then its your starter or the battery cables arnt making good contact.

take the big cables off and clean then termoinals and where they connect to on the battery posts, starter lug and engine block. if you have a new battery and clean terminals and it still wont crank for longer than 10 sec (although thats a LONG time to crank a starter), either the motor is REALLY REALLY tight, or the starter is going south.

woops, I thought it cranked over, but wasnt starting. Could be u need a high performance starter, I am not thqat good with the electronics.

if it was this changing batteries wont get it started

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BALLAST RESISTOR!!! Change that and she'll fire up. They go without you knowing and all it does is crank till she dies. Mike

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My vote is for the Starter.
There are many failure modes for starters, and I've experienced the one you are describing. I don't think you need a more powerful replacement, just one that cranks without seizing itself!

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Sounds like the old toasted starter to me. Headers tend to get them. Go with the mini van starter. I run them on 15to1 engines with a crank trigger. Wish they had them in the 70s so we wouldn't have heard all the starter jokes.

BAYOU

I'm sorry but we've been disconecting batteries for a lot of years and never blew a curcuit or gauge doing it. The new cars suffer from those syptoms but the older cars don't. You just pull the cable and the car will imediately die if the charging system is bad. You are disconeced for less than a 1/2 a second.