starter motor heat soak - hard to start when hot

[Thom89]

Sup!

This is my 2nd starter motor that has had issues with starting when the engine is hot. It was fine for a while but now does what my old one did. All cable voltages checked.

These mk2's stall often and can be scarey in traffic when I know it wont turn over easy if i stall 

Has anyone else got this heat soak problem and any way of shelding the new motor from heat?



Blue

I think you need to raise your suspension to gain better airflow!

Thom

[danny_p]

another littel trick worth doing is to pull the ignition king lead when it's hot and try start it,    if it crancks happy then  you have to much static ignition advance

[Mr Blue]

Thom - Think your right 
Danny - I did suspect this as I have never been happy with how its setup. Only started doing this again so ruled that out for now but will try that.

Will update on the fix

[danny_p]

m8's truck has just been switched over to "summer timeing"   right twit of a thing  needs more static advance in winter as it wont start without it just floods, but wont start with it in summer as it wont cranck fast enough.