Hello any and all, I have a 1974 mercury comet W/ a 250 six cly. What would make the starter hang and not disengage? Brand new starter but when cranking engine starter will not disengage and I have to pull negative battery cable to stop it. any advice would be greatly appreciated
Sounds like defective or the ignition switch is staying on for some reason. Did you replace the solenoid at the same time?
thanks for the reply yes, broke a post off the one on there so replaced w/ new one a few months ago. it was doing this before so I replaced the starter and it ran good for a while, but driving it the other day it started running really bad and quit all together. I think this might be a fuel pump issue because ther is hardly any fuel in the filter. But I pulled the starter and had it tested and it WAS going bad so they gave me a new one, but it is still doing it Tell me , there is a green marked connector on the solenoid, which connection does it go to...I guess I have it right because it was running good for a while. Hey thanks a lot!
Welcome to the board, Always good to see another Comet. I have had a solenoid do that to me in the distant past, it hung wide open and ran the starter (after I had already pulled the key from the ignition switch) until I got under the hood and popped the two small wires off of it. I am going to say that it is possible for the ignition switch to be doing this too. I think you are on the right path checking the solenoid wiring first ... then try another solenoid (cheaper and easier than the ignition switch). A bad starter can be excessively hard on the solenoid. Last resort ... check the ignition switch and the wiring coming off of it. edit ... just looked at my 72 ... no green connector, both of mine are black ... red wire with green stripe goes to the pole furthest back, red wire with blue stripe goes to the pole toward the radiator. Best of luck tracking it down.
