83 Ford Ranger Jumpstart instantly turning over

[Samwilcox41]

So I have a 83 Ford Ranger and I went to start it after 4-5 days of it sitting and it was clicking so I thought it was a bad solenoid. I replaced that and went to start it but my battery was dead so I jump started it and right when I hooked up both of the jumper cablesthe engine started to turn over like I was trying to start it even though the keys weren’t even in the ignition. I instantly unhooked it tried again and it started getting a charge to the battery without trying to start the truck I went to start it after a little and the truck fired up but sounded awful so I took the key out and once again it was sounding like it was trying to crank it over so I had to run out and unhook the jumper cables. Any help on to what is going on would be much appreciated.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Sounds like the new starter relay is stuck... try smacking it with a screw driver handle.

Or... you hooked something up wrong.

 

[1987ranger12394]

Check your wireing somethings not hooked up right

 

[snoranger]

Post a pic of your solenoid, so we can see how you wired it.

 

[Samwilcox41]

Sounds like the new starter relay is stuck... try smacking it with a screw driver handle.

Or... you hooked something up wrong.

I hooked it up exactly how I took it apart and it ran fine when I had it like that before but I’ll try smacking it to get it unstuck could the relay just be faulty ?

 

[Samwilcox41]

Check your wireing somethings not hooked up right

I hooked it up exactly how it was with the old solenoid so I am not sure how something could be hooked up wrong

 

[Samwilcox41]

Post a pic of your solenoid, so we can see how you wired it.

I’ll send a picture of it tomorrow during the day