gotta change my starter - Jeeps-Offroad.com Bulletin Board

redmuck · 04-03-2009, 08:25 PM

well i knew something was wrong today when i got in and redmuck almost didnt want to start. next 2 times a little worse, then 4th time nothing. gauge showed charging and i just put in a new alt. so i figure its the starter. im glad i was only a couple of miles from home, had the gf bring cables and that didnt do anything and then her son came and tried with his truck,still nothing, just a click of the starter. so he had to pull me home. so ill change it saturday. the battery is charged too by the way.

*Sparky-Watts* · 04-03-2009, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by redmuck

well i knew something was wrong today when i got in and redmuck almost didnt want to start. next 2 times a little worse, then 4th time nothing. gauge showed charging and i just put in a new alt. so i figure its the starter. im glad i was only a couple of miles from home, had the gf bring cables and that didnt do anything and then her son came and tried with his truck,still nothing, just a click of the starter. so he had to pull me home. so ill change it saturday. the battery is charged too by the way.

Didn't we just go through this with someone else a month or so ago?

Have you checked your cables? A badly corroded, broken or cracked battery cable will cause the starter to not act correctly. How did you hook up the jumper cables? Did you put them on the battery connectors? That's very dangerous and should never be done unless you have a dry cell battery. If you hooked the negative to the engine block and the positive to the starter end and it still didn't start, then I would believe it's a bad starter. If it starts that way, it's a bad cable, most likely positive. If you hooked the negative to part of the body or frame rail, then it could be a bad ground cable somewhere. I'd investigate the cables before shelling out money for a starter.

Alfred W. · 04-04-2009, 01:11 AM

NEVER attach both cables to the battery. If you do and the "bad" battery has a dead short or any other problem it will transfer that problem to the new battery.

redmuck · 04-05-2009, 07:00 PM

cables are good, and it just kinda did a single click no matter how i connected the cables. so i just bought a brand new starter, 100 bucks and put it in and he started. it was a pain in my butt too, finding the right tools to get the job done. i guess a vacuum hose came off somewhere that i dont know about, i put the ones i took off back on. my heat only comes out of defrost now. i did see a hose that i dont remember if it was disconnected already or not. im thinking thats the one that changes my heater controls from top to bottom.