Cant get truck to start, Please Help if you can, Thanks

[garold99]

Hi all,

I posted last week about my truck not starting and thought it was my starter. What happens is when i turn the ignition you can hear a single click at the starter so there is electicity getting to it. All it is is that one single hit though, the engine doesnt turn over or anything else.

I climbed under it and you can hear when the ignition engages, but nothing after that.

So I pull the starter thinking its bad and I take it to O'reily's. They test it and it works fine. So I put it back into the truck and nothing, the same thing happens.

I forgot to mention that when this was starting to happen if I moved my gear shift lever on the column around in park then sometimes the truck would start. But at the time I pulled the starter not even that was working.

Anyhow, I put starter back in and the same thing was happening. So I pull the battery and take it to be tested. Battery tested fine, showed 750 cranking amps. So while I was at O'reily's I bought another battery cable to replace the positive battery cable. I got one extra long so I could lay the starter on the ground to connect the cables.

Anyhow I replaced the positive battery cable and that didnt work either, still the same thing happened. But while my son was hitting the ignition a number of times the truck at one time cranked. So I took it off its stands and tried it again. Well nothing happened, I jiggled the gear shift on the column while hitting the ignition and finally found a spot it would start. Got the truck running and drove it around, I really missed that When I got back home I pulled it into the drive to get it out of the street just incase it didnt restart, so I could at least work on it in my drive way instead of the street.

After turning truck off, I tried to restart it and NOTHING, still just does the same thing. Hit the ignition and get a one time click at starter. Even tried jiggling the gear shift but that didnt even work.

So here is what Ive done so far. Tested starter and battery and both tested ok. Changed out the positive battery cable.

What else do I need to try? Maybe replace the ignition wire? But I would think if I'm getting a click down there then the ignition wire is ok.

One thing and this might not matter at all. The positive battery cable is pretty long, 65 inches, I dont think that would matter. But it does lay over the negative battery cable. Would that effect anything? I mean both cables are insulated so they wouldnt cross fire or cancel anything out would they? Could it be a ground problem somewhere? I would think if it was a ground problem then I wouldnt even get a click when I hit the ignition.

Any help is greatly appreciated. And sorry for the long post, but I wanted to let you know exactly what I have done so far.

Thanks