No crank almost causes bad day on trail

[no694terry]

Truck was running good all day, then i shut it off to let it cool down a bit and went we went to move on i tried to start back up and had no crank. all other electricals were fine just wouldn't crank. I banged on starter, cycled the alarm, moved shifter through all the gears and pushed it good back into park and still nothing. Then all of a sudden after sitting a few minutes it decided to crank and start and was fine rest of the day. I had the ckps cause no starts before but this was different, i didn't have any of the usual relay shutter. just like a bad ignition on the crank end.

new battery, 99 D1, 125k miles, wasn't in any deep water, was 90 degrees and humid, was running close to 3 hours prior being shut off

 

[BaldEagle]

my 96 has done this before in very hot conditions, mostly at times when it was running hot to begin with. (rovers never do that, right?)

 

[markdisco]

Out of curiosity, were you able to figure out what happened? I had the exact same problem this weekend except my truck still hasn't started. I don't hear any relay chatter, I banged on the starter, battery is still strong. I tuned the truck off an saw I was a little too far from the curb and when I tried starting it to move over, it wouldn't crank.

 

[no694terry]

http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79954&referrerid=15344

this was a double post.