rbednar

Problem solved! It was the battery. It's about 7 years old and was just not holding a charge anymore. New DieHard = fixed the problem. DoesZ it sounds like you have exactly the same issue. From now on I will disconnect the Batt for the winter, bring it inside the basement and trickle charge it during the winters. Thanks all for your suggestions and advice!

Thanks for your help - the engine does turn, and the car has been started regularly over the winter. My father in law took the battery to Sears to be tested - and lo and behold - the battery was dead as a doornail. So he picked up a new diehard and we will pop it in tomorrow morning to see what's happening. Thanks for all your help so far. To be continued....

I'm a bit perplexed with my father in law's 240Z. We backed it out of the garage this morning for the first time since the fall, and hooked up the battery charger. The battery charged at about 2.7-3.0 amps for about a half hour so we tried to turn it over. The starter clicked repeatedly (like it does when your battery is too low to turn it over). Probably a bad battery, we thought. So we put the car on a boosting charger to try to get it started, and when the boost kicked in, it did the same thing. I bridged the posts on the solenoid with a screwdriver, and it only hummed and did not turn over. Any ideas? Any help is appreciated!