Mike, If your battery gauge is showing good volts then that clicking noise may be a faulty starter solenoid. Do you have the heat shield for the starter? I used to have this problem when the car would get hot. If I let it cool down, it would start right up. Once I put the heat shield on, my problem went away. I went through alot of starters before I realized this. Hope this helps, Duke ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike $ <sheilaridez@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 8:21 AM Subject: [DML] High idle, overheated, won't start > Hi, ok I have a weird combination problem upon me now. Last night I took > my 81 to get pizza, I left the car running while I ran in to get it. Well a > friend was there, and we started talking (bad idea), and about 10 minutes > later, I looked outside and my D had overheated, big time. I refilled the > coolant a few hours later when I drove it home, and put the battery charger > on it. It seemed to run ok on my way home, except for the high idle. The > idle, when I left home was around 2,500 rpms. It does this about once a > week; the idle goes really high, and usually after revving the engine, it > stops and goes back to normal, it wouldn't do that today. But now for > another thing, when I took the charger off this morning, the car won't > start. I had it on trickly charge, and the battery is full, but I only get > a click from the engine when I try to start her. Any ideas? > Thanks a million, > Mike Schaefer > ______________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Before posting messages or replies, see the posting policy rules at: > www.dmcnews.com/Admin/rules.html > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderator@xxxx > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Create a poll/survey for your group! > -- http://www.egroups.com/vote?listname=dmcnews&m=1 > >