I don't know whats going on with my starter. All it does is ingauge but will not spin at all to start the motor. I toke it back to auto zone and they tested it and the starter was fine, it worked like it was sapost to. I put it back on my car and hooked everything up and it still will not spin. I had to put a new tranny in before all these starter problems happened. Now i can't figgure out what is wronge with my starter, HELP PLEASE!!!

 

Is the battery charged?

Can the engine be rotated by hand? The starter won't work if there is a hammer or something stuck in the rotor housing.

When they check starters, is there a way to apply a load to it, or do they just hook it up to a battery and see if it rotates? I know that there is a much bigger load on the starter motor when its turning the engine versus just free spinning.

 

I'm not a 100% sure about this, but i think how the starters work is the little wire that you plug into the spade on the starter, if it dosn't get 12v, then it will cause the starter to kick out, but not spin. Can somebody confirm this?

 

thats on the solenoid. The solenoid is a big relay. Apply 12V through the little wire (from the ignition key) and it close the path between the battery positive cable (attached to the starter motor) and the battery ground which is grounded to the engine. The battery power goes to the winded coil and the motor spins its *** off.

 

every thing is hooked up right and the battery is charged and the motor spins freely. The starter just wont spin like it did at auto zone. It acts like it isnt getting enough power. And the pos. cable on the battery is getting hot could it be a bad cable?

 

Starters have asses? j/k

Smoken'- you need to spin the engine, like Project84 said, BEFORE you burn the starter up...When that sucker ain't spinning with all that juice to it, it's acting as a direct short to ground, which WILL fry something sooner than later- either the starter, or your wiring...

 

you need new brushes... its like $20 for a set of them... or just get another starter... mine did this to and after a while it will wear down so much that you get low compression on startup and will flood EVERY time... so fix it... my car sat for 6 months because i THOUGHT my motor was dead but it ended up being a starter... good luck

 

How is it going to be the brushes if he had the starter tested? The brushes are in the starter. IF he got it tested, then the starter should be fine. If its not working on his car, then there is something else wrong, like a wiring problem.

 

yeah thats what i thought to... so i changed all my grounding and posative wireing and nothing changed... brushes are finiky... they sometimes work and somtimes dont... so the test on the starter coulda been a fluke

 

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Brushes are finicky? 99.9% of every electric motor (including starters, alternators, and generators) on this planet has brushes...If they were finicky, don't you think we would know it by now?

It's hard to be too finicky with a 10+ lb. spring shoving its *** down on the commutator, wouldn't ya think?

mzspeed7- you got that engine turned by hand yet???

 

i didnt mean all the time... just when they are wearing out