starter problem

[crusader8]

you guys talk about geting clicks,well...i woke up, got in, put the key in and damn, nothing. battery has a full charge. no click, radio and lights still work. looked under the truck and found a nice wire hanging by itself... anyone have pics of the starter so i know where it goes. the wire most likely has to be replaced anyway. any help would be great.

 

[MikeRenz]

notice how nicely the wire sheilding burnt off on mine....but it still never clicked and always started well! (somehow..)

 

[crusader8]

a third wire

a third wire

i have a third wire hanging in the general area.
are there only 2 wires going to the starter?

 

[MikeRenz]

one thin, and one thick wire going to the starter.What color is the wire hanging in the area?

 

[crusader8]

cant tell

cant tell

maybe black, fairly thick. all corroded

Edit: looks like its been hanging for a while. but the starter is not engaging at all, no click, but power to everything else

 

[MikeRenz]

can you take a picture?

 

[crusader8]

sadly no...havnt a clue how the digital camera works.probably gonna pull the starter and have somebody look at it for a while, give them some money and then they give me a new one

 

[crusader8]

wire

wire

as for the hanging wire...im lost, but the short black wire(1\2in long) from the selenoid to the starter motor was disconected so that may be the problem

 

[Blake]

This is a pic I drew so please bear with me. There is the one little wire that goes from the solenoid to the starter. The really large one is the one that comes from the battery.
In the pic there is a big jumper going from the terminal that the battery goes to over to the small terminal. In stock applications, that jumper isn't there and the little purple wire goes to the small terminal. You can fix it back like it was. Probably last a few months at least. A permanent fix(if you feel like messing with it is on the same site that the pic came from)
Happy holidays,
Blake

 

[crusader8]

starter

starter

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[crusader8]

3rd wire

3rd wire

New starter did it... i thought the 3rd wire was some type of ground so i held the wire to the larger terminal on the starter(while hanging under the truck)worked like a charm...but the wire was just an old antena wire melted to the DP acting as a ground(got rid of it),so the starter runs but wount stop.only way to stop it is disconnecting the battery

someone's had to have this problem