2003 2.5 alt good starter good engine will not turn over you can hear the starter click but that's all is the engine locked up or timing chain??????

Sounds to me as if your starter is dead. Do you hear a click every time you turn the key? If so, then it is your starter. You can try hitting it with a hammer or something hard and try to turn. Chances are it will turn over but sounds as if the brushes are dead.

Well, that's good, but even if the chain was broke, the starter would still be tryiing to start the car. Since your starter wont crank the engine over, your start circuit has a malfunction. Possibly the starter went out, so you need to have that tested for a malfunction. A simple test of part of the circuit is to turn the key to on.. Now your dash warnimg lights (oil, alternator, and check engine light) should be on. Are they on, and your gauges working? If not you have lost power to the ignition switch, so check your battery connections. If the key switch turns the dash on, then turn key to start. Do you hear a click from the engine area? If not, have the starter checked. If you do hear a click, or several clicks, then power from the switch is causing that click, probably at the starter. Turn the headlights on and observe them. Are they bright? If not, charge the battery up. If they are bright, watch them while a helper turns the key to start. If the lights go dim in start, probably a bad starter. If the lights don't dim, it could be a bad connection somewhere, like the battery or starter. Good luck

get a socket to fit the crank pulley nut and try turning over the engine by hand if it turns you might have a bad cable to the starter or bad starter but if you cant turn it this means its locked up and seized no good.

sounds like solinod is stuck

If you hear a loud clank when you try to start it, but nothing turns, that is the starter trying to turn the engine, but the engine is locked up. If the timing chain/belt jumped, the engine would still spin.

if the lights are bright and you hear a clicking and your heat blows good, the head lights are still real bright after trying to start a few time replace the starter (you can try to hit the starter with a hammer otr somthing heavy a few times and then try to start if it sounds better or starts replace the starter) if the battery goes dead try to jumpit if it starts then dies after a few min its the alt if it starts runs good and you let it run for about half hour shut it off and it wont restart rite away its the battery.

Pretty sure you have a dead battery. The radio and lights may come on, but if the capacity to start is not there, the starter will not turn. There is no such thing as a locked starter, as you describe.

Typically, when you hear a clicking sound, it indicates that the starter solenoid is bad.

A starter solenoid (or starter relay) is the part of an automobile which relays a large electric current to the starter motor, which in turn sets the engine in motion. In many vehicles the solenoid also engages the starter pinion with the ring gear of the engine.

i would have someone turn the key to the on position and listen to see if you hear the fuel pump whinnig ( means it is building pressure). Then if that is good then i would take a spark plug wire off and see if you are getting fire from the plug!! what caused it to jus stop running for??

reach under engine and tap on starter with a hammer (careful!) while someone turns key...starter needs lube at Bendix solenoid.