let me start from the beginning so everything makes sense.
so, after driving around town for awhile, my grandfather and i parked our 69 2000 in the driveway. then maybe half an hour later we went back to pull the car into the garage. but the car didn’t turn over.
okay, maybe the battery is having issues and needs charged, it’s an old battery.
so we push the car into the garage and charge the battery then try to start it again. still nothing. just clicks from the starter.
okay, well maybe our connections at the starter are loose? so we check everything, tighten everything up, all looks well, still nothing. starter just clicking.
okay, maybe we’ve got a starter issue? so we take out our starter and take it to a local guy that has been rebuilding starters forever to have it rebuilt. so we get the starter back, put it in the car and try again. still nothing, the starter rapidly clicks now.
okay, seems like we don’t have enough juice to the starter and it just can’t turn the motor over. maybe we do have a bad battery.
well, we take it to oreilly to get it tested and it’s still good.
hm, maybe we’ll try a different starter and see what that does. so i research a bit in the forum here and we picked up a forklift starter. part # 23300-K9160. i’m sure many of you are familiar with it.
will this finally solve our issues? nope. the starter still clicks rapidly.
okay, well let’s try a new battery and battery cable, surely that will solve our problem.
nope. it still clicks and struggles to turn the motor over.
some other things we have done are check voltage to the solenoid wire when cranking, it shows 12v so we must be good there. we’ve checked continuity through our harness that goes down to the starter and cleaned it up a bit too. all seems good there.
we have not messed with our alternator at all, but it was rebuilt when we rebuilt our engine roughly a year ago. also, i don’t see how we’d have an alternator problem when even with a brand new battery we can’t get crank whatsoever.
it may also be worth mentioning that we managed to get the car to start a few random times. all of which occurred when the battery charger was hooked up or when attempting to jump it with my grandfathers truck.
thoughts? ideas on other things we should check? we are at a point where our knowledge is not enough to diagnose this issue and we don’t know what to do at this point.
thank you in advance if you’ve read this far and i hope some of you may have some insight!
so i got it grounded and now it turns over no problem! thanks everyone