Engine will not start, just a click......Help

[kylebush9]

Hey everyone,

Please help as I am about to go crazy. I turn the key and get 1 click from either the slave solenoid or the 50 amp CB. I trouble shot everything. New battery, new starter and new slave solenoid. Plenty of juice. I followed the post, http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=167035, to the last work. I am unable to by-pass anything to get a start. Still every time I turn the key I am still getting one click.

What am I missing?

Please any advice will be greatly appreciated.

1996 Chaparral
4.3l meccruiser


-Kyle

 

[Lone Duck]

Re: Engine will not start, just a click......Help

If you have done everything on the instruction post. Then it is time to consider that it is hydrolocked or seized . pull the plugs and then hit the starter. If it spins and fluid comes out the plug holes, find out if it is fuel or water. If it does not spin, see if you can turn it by hand. If not then you have a seized condition.

 

[Texasmark]

Re: Engine will not start, just a click......Help

The click is a small current driven by battery voltage, via the start switch terminal that energizes the high current switch in the starter solenoid (relay). If you only get one click, it says that your battery current (juice) is not getting to the starter, or the starter can't use it because of something like corrosion between the starter housing and the engine block.....or corrosion between the battery negative terminal and the engine block....dirty contacts on either or both ends of the cables either + or - or both. Since you changed your starter, I would tend to rule out corrosion associated with the + terminal of it or it's grounding to the engine block as a root cause.

If you had multiple clicks (which you don't, but for the record), you would either have low battery voltage, a bad battery, or dirty terminals on either end of your Red (+) and/or Black (-) battery wires.

Go to Radio Shack or Harbor Freight and buy yourself an inexpensive multimeter. May be called a DMM, DVM, multimeter or who knows what. You have to know where the voltage is to answer your question. Not rocket science, just finding the missing link.

Get back here and if I don't answer, PM me.

Mark

 

[kylebush9]

Re: Engine will not start, just a click......Help

Gents,
Thanks for the quick replys. Chief, could this happen if the engine was started and running fine 2 weeks ago? Mark I will try that first thing in the morning and get back with you.

R/
Kyle

 

[Lone Duck]

Re: Engine will not start, just a click......Help

Gents,
Thanks for the quick replys. Chief, could this happen if the engine was started and running fine 2 weeks ago? Mark I will try that first thing in the morning and get back with you.

R/
Kyle

Yep !

 

[lmannyr]

Re: Engine will not start, just a click......Help

Get a socket and breaker bar and turn the engine using the main pulley (forgot the name). If it doesn't spin, pull the plugs and try again. If it spins, THEN grab a multimeter.

Check basics first, then tear into the details.

 

[kylebush9]

Re: Engine will not start, just a click......Help

The engine spins. Looks like I need a mutimeter. I just cleaned the negative post on the back of the engine as well. Nothing but a Click.

 

[Lone Duck]

Re: Engine will not start, just a click......Help

The engine spins. Looks like I need a mutimeter. I just cleaned the negative post on the back of the engine as well. Nothing but a Click.

O K ! Got jumper cables ? If so go from ground on your batt to the starter casing or a good engine ground. Next go from pos on the batt. to the pos terminal on starter, just touch the pos firmly If your starter spins it is your solenoid
or poor connections in your system. Leave the plugs out on the first try. If it spins put the plugs in and try again. Do not turn on ignition.