Hello all.

After doing some rebuilding a friends engine, when we go to turn it over to check for a spark, it just Ticks and doesn't turn.

We've tried another starter, but this has not helped.

Is something draining current? maybe the alternator? (as we have replaced the orinal item with a sierra one which was 2nd hand)...
The battery is fully charged.

Many thanks in advance

Austin

 

if it is a lound ticking kind of noise i would suggest you may have a flat battery!!the clicking is the starter motor trying to turn over and then giving up!!

 

if the battery has been on the car whilst its had its rebuild then a battery may appear fully charged ie a charger will show it as fully charged but one or more of the cells may have broken down.this results in the battery only holding charge in the working cells.

 

deffo the battery matey
i had the same prob with mine a while back and the battery just packed up

 

check the terminals on the bat!

had the same with me saff! tightned the neg on batt and was fine after!

 

Can you turn the engine over by hand/with a spanner on the crank?

 

aye battery dude, had the same deal....sounds like a machine gun?

 

sound like might be engine seized as this is what one of mine done when it seized up thought it was starter changed it done the same

 

Engines not siezed. It turned over about 5 times before starting to play up, and the engine is fresh.

Sounds like its deffo the battery then.

doesn't sound like a machine gun, it just ticks once.

Thanks for your help.

 

defo battery or bad earth connection

 

the tick is more likely to be the solinode on the starter. dead batterys/poor coonections often have enough power for that but no enough for the starter itself.

ive had both of the above dead battery and crappy connections on separate occasions. check them both to be sure

 

make sure all earths and lives are tight everywhere same problem as mine cos i had an earth lose.

 

Looks like we had a bad earth. All fine after a good clean up.

Many thanks!
...Now back to trying to get this thing to fire up