Ground wire location

If you want to get dirty. Get under the vehicle where starter is located. Have someone strat the vehicle. You are you should here the click noises, that's bended solenoid sneezing. If you hear the clicking noise starter or wire at the terminal is bad. Now if you dont hear anything than you have electrical problem. Make sure to check battery terminals, grounding wire to the engine, and fuse.

The Solenoid is located on the starter. Typically the solenoid/starter are replaced as one unit. Before you go replacing anything, rule out bad connections ,bad cables. Check all connections at battery. Especially check the ground connections from battery to engine block. See if the starter has a ground wire and check it. Check for corrosion in battery cables. Check connections on the starter, both the smaller wire and the larger cable from the battery. If you disconnect any of these wires, first disconnect the negative cable on the battery. Mechanics know how to 'jump start' the starter directly form the battery. If you know how to do this- try it. If you don't know how - DON"T TRY IT! What you can try is to connect a jumper cable from the NEGATIVE terminal of the battery to the BODY of the starter, not to any of the wires, and see if the car starts. This little test will rule out a ground problem

does jumper cable starts fail too?
ill pretend, no.
batteries come in 3 flavors, dead and charges, or? weak?
jump starts of live engine's is another matter.

so the RED wire big goes from battery Plus to solenoid stud. big
and the minus battery lug on many cars gots to the starter mount bolt.
this is the best place for it.
on you car i dont know, and only the FSM shows that.
alldata.com will not show exact spot. only a schematic.
the starter can PULL 500 amps easy, but 100 is typical on a spring day. and that ground wire belongs on the starter bolt or to the
actually engine block, some way, this I am 100% sure.

Even after charging the battery or jumping? Do you know where the starter is located and what it looks like? Round, 3 wires coming out of the top, located under the engine at the rear. Check these wires and make sure they are secure. Located on top of the starter is the selonoid which causes the starter to engage. With the vehicle in park, emergency brake applied, have someone try starting it while you lay underneath. Listen for a clikcking to come from the seloniod. Can put your hand on it and feel the click too. If you get a strong click, but the starter does not engage, you may have a bad starter. Not too hard to change out but take battery cables off 1st! Also change the seloniod if you take the starter off. You do not want to do this twice so easier to make sure both parts are new. GT

This has to be one of two things, first try to start the truck with the headlights on and see if the headlights go out when you hear the clicking noise , if they dont then connections are good,mainly the ground wire. but if the headlights go out when the key is in the crank postion then you need to check the ground connection at the motor, you can also try using jumper cables and only use the ground cable and connect one end to negitive battery terminal and the other end to a good clean metal bracket on the engine and then try to start the truck if it starts then its the ground to engine thats bad, this is only if the lights dim out when cranking. also i have seen bad starters that will test good on the bench until they are put back on the car. when the starter was tested it had no engine to turn this makes a big diffrence. try this, jump the starter at the connections on the starter itself, use a jumper wire, on the starter theres two wires, the big hot battery cable and then the small wire, jump across the two connections with wire on, dont remove the connections and see if the engine spins over, if it does then there an eletrical problem with the small wire but if it still clicks then the starter is bad or engine is locked up, i think if you drove the truck and parked it without a problem then i would say its the starter,but if the engine spins over by jumping it then you will neeed to check the power to small wire thats the wire that feeds the power to start the truck when key is turned, this could be caused by a bad ignition switch or a bad neutral safty switch, thats where i would look first, good day.

percyhey, The first idea is to check the starter itself. You will need a test light for this procedure. Jack up the car and put jackstands under the frame to support it. PLEASE DO NOT go under the car with out them. Ramps would be easier and safer if you have them. Locate the starter and the little wire going to the solenoid. Remove the wire and find a good ground for the test light. The negative battery terminal is best if your test light wires are long enough. If not then use the body or engine as a ground and test this by touching the test light probe to the large wire on the starter and see if it lights up. If the small wire is bolted to the starter then you dont have to remove it, just make sure that it is intact. Touch the test light probe at the small wire and have someone try to start the engine. If it lights up then you have power going to the starter and the solenoid is malfunctioning and the starter needs to be replaced. Seeing that you have already tested the fuses and relays and replaced the ignition switch then this is the only possibility left. If you dont have power going to the solenoid then check the battery wires. Good luck with this.

It's either a bad battery (low on charge) or a loose ground wire. If you are SURE that the battery has 12 volts (yes, even a low battery will run your lights, radio, door ajar chime, etc., but won't have enough to start the car). If the battery is fully charged and your volt meter shows 14.4 volts (fully charged battery reading), then it's a ground wire. There are two locations. The negative battery cable itself on the battery, and the location on the frame or engine where the cable connects to.If these are ok, check the positive cable connection on the starter.

why do you need a diagram?, if you have a new one, just route and install it just like the old one.

The starter is located on the passenger side rear of the engine Two bolts(size13mm??) Be sure to disconnect the pos. battery cable first, before disconecting the wires from the starter,otherwise, you'll ground those wires out and have fireworks. Also, draw out a diagram of the wiring before removing them,so you'll know where they go back on your new starter.

could be a bad ground wire to the battiery or possitive cable