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Well, the solenoid wire goes up into a factory wrapped loom under the intake and throttle body and up through the firewall behind the dash. Any better way to check this stuff without taking half the dash apart to trace it? I can take the solenoid wire off the starter and just check the voltage applied to it when I hit the key- never has been suspect as I've always got 12.4-12.7 volts.
As far as the neutral switch goes, I can only start the truck in neutral and park; no other gear selected lets it start. I thought this would signify it as working properly, do I need to do some type of continuity check on it as well?

Hope Toyota takes this starter back!


Well, 2 options are:

1. See if you can locate some good test places where you can check voltages between the starter and the ignition switch to find where the problem lies.

2. Do one of the following:
- http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTricks/Starter.shtml#OtherOptions

I installed a separate relay to power the solenoid as I figured it was easier to do that than to trace the factory wiring back to find my intermittent starting problem. Since installing the relay many years ago, it has started on the first turn of the key every time.

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