Need help, no start!!

[HEATSEEKER]

Hello!

When i try to start my car the starter just klicks, and after i have workt whit the key for about 15 minutes the enginge just starts.
Sometimes the engine goes around a then its just doing a sudden stop even when i houlding the key in the start position
The battery is ok and there is power all the time even when the starter klicks.
I hope you understand my spelling(i`am from sweden) and my problem :frown:

Thanks!
Jakob

 

[BlackBandit]

Maybe the solenoid or the wires going to the starter are bad. I would check the fusible links by the starter. Just a suggestion. james

 

[86 TR]

I had a similar problem. I went to start the car and all there was: CLICK. Went to try again and vrooom started right up. I found out I had a bad soleniod... New battery too. It only happened twice and after I fixed the solenoid started everytime.:biggrin:

 

[Blown&Injected]

My car just did the same thing. I had the negative cable off and did not realize that my positive cable was almost off too - tightened it up and all was well.

Sure sounds like an easy fix. I bet it is one of these things in the thread.

BTW When my solenoid went it did the same thing your car is doing and a high torque starter with new solenoid was only about $5 more than just the solenoid its self.

 

[HEATSEEKER]

Okej, thanks for all answers!
I will take a closer look on all cabels to the starter.
I took the starter of and tested it whit a battery and a skrewdriwer and the starter worked ok, could it still be the soleniod?
Could it be the ignition key look??

Thanks!
Jakob

 

[Blown&Injected]

Yes, it may still be the starter and or solenoid.

In fact I have driven on bad starters for a month and just either jumped the solenoid and or had to smack the starter with something hard while the key was turned:biggrin: It was my younger years.

 

[ChavoLC2]

Solenoid

Take the starter out take it to the Svedis equivelent to AutoZone or PepBoys . Maybe Manny ,Mo and Jack can hook it up to their tester. They will be able to tell you if it is the solenoid, starter or both. While it's off check your flywheel's teeth make sure they're ok. Hopefully it is something as easy as solenoid replacement. Good Luck..

 

[HEATSEEKER]

Yes, it may still be the starter and or solenoid.

In fact I have driven on bad starters for a month and just either jumped the solenoid and or had to smack the starter with something hard while the key was turned:biggrin: It was my younger years.

Okej, what do you men whit jumped the solenoid? do you men whit a skrewdriver?

 

[HEATSEEKER]

Take the starter out take it to the Svedis equivelent to AutoZone or PepBoys . Maybe Manny ,Mo and Jack can hook it up to their tester. They will be able to tell you if it is the solenoid, starter or both. While it's off check your flywheel's teeth make sure they're ok. Hopefully it is something as easy as solenoid replacement. Good Luck..

I live in Sweden so no pepboys or autozone ower here
I will try to find a guy that could test my starter and solenoid.
The flywheel teeth are okej.
Could it be the ignition key look?

 

[Blown&Injected]

Okej, what do you men whit jumped the solenoid? do you men whit a skrewdriver?

yes

 

[84BuickGNYorkPA]

I don't think that it is your ignition switch, if it was you would not hear a click. Most of the time, it is the solenoid, when you turn the key and you hear a click, click, click, (very rappid).
Good Luck,

Chuck

 

[HEATSEEKER]

I don't think that it is your ignition switch, if it was you would not hear a click. Most of the time, it is the solenoid, when you turn the key and you hear a click, click, click, (very rappid).
Good Luck,

Chuck

Hello Chuck!

It is just one click when i turn the key, I have left the starter to a friend so i will know sone if the solenoid or the starter is game over.

Do you now what the small black plastic things on the cabels to the starter are?? is it just a conection or is it a resistance?

Thanks!
Jakob

 

[HEATSEEKER]

yes

Ok, thanks!

 

[2 QK 4 U]

Do you now what the small black plastic things on the cabels to the starter are?? is it just a conection or is it a resistance?

Thanks!
Jakob

Those are the fusible links. They too can go bad.

 

[HEATSEEKER]

Those are the fusible links. They too can go bad.

Can you please explain what fusible links are?

Thanks!
Jakob

 

[84BuickGNYorkPA]

Can you please explain what fusible links are?

Thanks!
Jakob

Jakob,


They are like a fuse built into the cable, when they go bad it will not start. I would check them with a voltmeter to see if they ohm out good, set the voltmeter to ohm and put one lead at each end of the cable and see what your reading is. You can touch both leads together and the meter should read 0.00. I hope that this helps!

Chuck

 

[HEATSEEKER]

Jakob,


They are like a fuse built into the cable, when they go bad it will not start. I would check them with a voltmeter to see if they ohm out good, set the voltmeter to ohm and put one lead at each end of the cable and see what your reading is. You can touch both leads together and the meter should read 0.00. I hope that this helps!

Chuck

Aha, okej!
Yes it does, hard to understand(From SWEDEN) all the words sometimes :frown:
I tested one yesterday to cheek if there was a resistiance and the ohm meter read 0.03, is that ok?
I will test the rest off the fuses(fusible links) in the end off this week when i come home.

Could it be the fusible links? the car starts after i worket whit the key a couple of minutes.

Thanks Chuck!

 

[fubar2578]

A voltage drop test is far more accurate with larger guage wire than an ohm test.

To do a voltage drop test you set the meter to the appropriate voltage setting. Hook one lead up to each end of the wire to be tested and make sure the circuit is completed. If the meter shows more than a .5 volt than you need to find the cause of the resistance.

Hope this helps

 

[Savageite]

Alright I have a dumb question. Do you get a new solinoid when you get a starter or is that seperate?

 

[2 QK 4 U]

Alright I have a dumb question. Do you get a new solinoid when you get a starter or is that seperate?

You get a new solenoid. It's attached to the starter assembly.