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pawillie · 03-21-2025, 06:33 PM

Engaged starter and all current went dead throughout the vehicle. Unhooked batter cables and had current coming from battery but everything dies when connecting cable back on starter. Engine cranks OK with hand crank so not jammed. Not good!

rotorwrench · 03-21-2025, 06:49 PM

Starter bushings may be shot. Time to check it for rotation. It may also have e a short somewhere in there. This assumes that you've already checked the battery and cabling.

Big hammer · 03-21-2025, 06:55 PM

Dying battery

Ordsgt · 03-21-2025, 07:07 PM

Put a battery tester on it to see if battery is OK. May have 6 volts but under load drops off

nkaminar · 03-22-2025, 07:56 AM

I am also going to go with the dead battery. Did you check the electrolyte levels?

rotorwrench · 03-22-2025, 10:21 AM

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The poor mans battery load check is to turn lights on with someone watching intensity and then hit the starter pedal. If the lights dim out and the starter turns slowly then either there is no capacity in the battery or the cabling is going south. The starter is the last check. Battery and connection testing is the easier of the two and a person should always do the easy stuff first when troubleshooting.

pawillie · 03-22-2025, 11:17 AM

Thanks much, I shall put all this wisdom to good use. Blessings.

ronn · 03-22-2025, 03:13 PM

why not help it with a hand crank?

03-21-2025, 06:33 PM	#1
pawillie Member Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 41	No current Engaged starter and all current went dead throughout the vehicle. Unhooked batter cables and had current coming from battery but everything dies when connecting cable back on starter. Engine cranks OK with hand crank so not jammed. Not good!

03-21-2025, 06:49 PM	#2
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 17,410	Re: No current Starter bushings may be shot. Time to check it for rotation. It may also have e a short somewhere in there. This assumes that you've already checked the battery and cabling. Last edited by rotorwrench; 03-22-2025 at 10:24 AM. Reason: Just to add.

03-21-2025, 06:55 PM	#3
Big hammer Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Land of Lincoln Posts: 3,430	Re: No current Dying battery __________________ Don't force it with a little hammer tap, tap, tap get a bigger hammer tap done

03-21-2025, 07:07 PM	#4
Ordsgt Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: Yorktown Virginia Posts: 246	Re: No current Put a battery tester on it to see if battery is OK. May have 6 volts but under load drops off

03-22-2025, 07:56 AM	#5
nkaminar Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Western North Carolina Posts: 5,865	Re: No current I am also going to go with the dead battery. Did you check the electrolyte levels? __________________ A is for apple, green as the sky. Step on the gas, for tomorrow I die. Forget the brakes, they really don't work. The clutch always sticks, and starts with a jerk. My car grows red hair, and flies through the air. Driving's a blast, a blast from the past.

03-22-2025, 10:21 AM	#6
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 17,410	Re: No current Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) The poor mans battery load check is to turn lights on with someone watching intensity and then hit the starter pedal. If the lights dim out and the starter turns slowly then either there is no capacity in the battery or the cabling is going south. The starter is the last check. Battery and connection testing is the easier of the two and a person should always do the easy stuff first when troubleshooting.

03-22-2025, 11:17 AM	#7
pawillie Member Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 41	Re: No current Thanks much, I shall put all this wisdom to good use. Blessings.

03-22-2025, 03:13 PM	#8
ronn Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NNNNNNNNJJJJJJJJJJ Posts: 7,650	Re: No current why not help it with a hand crank?

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