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[Beast]

Folks,

Well just as I was about to ge the tensioner situation squared away. I start the truck yesterday listen to were the noise is coming from, think it is actially the idler pully itself. But, shut the truck off and go into the house come back out and go to start the truck and I get that INFAMOUSE "CLICK", no start no nothing.

Pulled out the Haynes book, says to check with the starter relay switch or selonoid as some call it.

But, it is a 1992 Ranger 3.0L 2wd and I am not sure were it is located, I mean I believe I know and want to do the check that they mention with a jumper cable in the Haynes manual, but I do not want to connect the wrong thing.

Can anybody tell me on this year of truck were it is located, what it looks like and any other suggestions. Cause I am dead in the water right now. If it is not one thing it is another.

Any pictures or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


HELP!!!

Beast

 

[BlackBII]

Try jumping it. (Maybe the battery doesn't quite have the powerz!)
Clean you battery terminals.
Check connection at starter.
Give the starter relay a tap with a screwdriver. It's right next to the battery, black, circular object and will have two fat red wires going to the two posts.

 

[Beast]

Starter Relay

Thanks. Checked all connections yesterday and everything secure, tried to charge with a battery charger (already had a fullcharge, it;s also a brand new battery), Tried to jump start with next door neighbors car, no go there. I will try the tap idea on the relay and check the starter connection.

Anybody else? Pictures or anything.

Beast

 

[adsm08]

the starter relay and the starter solenoid are two different things, and yes, a lot of guys use the words interchangeably.

the relay is the round thing on the fender wall that the battery + cable runs to.

the solenoid is the little cylinder on the starter motor itself that throws out the drive pinion to engage the flywheel.

If you are getting the clicking both are good. If its a repetitive clicking, go buy a battery. If its a once and done click, check the heavy gauge wire to the starter.

 

[trail B2]

What I like to do is turn on the lights and have someone try to start it.If the lights go dim its the battery or battery connections not enough power to the starter.If they stay bright its usually the starter theres other ways it can go bad but this usually covers it.Theres two different designs and i'm not sure what the 3 liter is there's the relay on the firewall this is an old design you can bypass this with a jumper cable heavy wire to heavy wire but sometimes they put these on the firewall to run other things as well.Yours is probably on the starter.What I would do is the light test if the lights don't dim I don't think they will by what your saying.Disconnect the negative terminal and take out the starter and have it tested or test it yourself almost any at least semi modern starter the solenoid relay combo is right on the starter.

 

[Beast]

Ready For This

Okay folks was getting ready to go outside and do what everybody suggested and guess what when I got into the truck it STARTED before I did a thing. In fact shut it off and cranked it a half dozen times.

BUT, the one thing that I noticed like yesterday when this happened is that whem I left the truck running like yesterday and got it warmed up. I shut it off and then went to crank it again and all I get AGAIN is the "CLICK"

Same today!!!!!

Anymore clues or suggestions another hurdle to cross. Not sure where this is going?????

Beast

 

[ASMODEAN]

Check the starter. I had a similar problem with my Silverado ( I know its not a ranger but im getting to my point)

My starter was weak to begin with and when the headers would heat up the starter would just sit there and either spin and not catch or would just click the solenoid and leave you stranded till it cooled off. I changed the starter and it works just fine now.

 

[Beast]

how do you check the starter?

 

[TheBeast]

Lol at the name coincidence.

Pull the starter, take it to advanced/auto zone/ pepboys/oreillys. Basically anywhere they can bench test it. I've done it a million times before. Pretty straight forward

 

[R***A**N**G**E***R]

Folks,

Well just as I was about to ge the tensioner situation squared away. I start the truck yesterday listen to were the noise is coming from, think it is actially the idler pully itself. But, shut the truck off and go into the house come back out and go to start the truck and I get that INFAMOUSE "CLICK", no start no nothing.

Pulled out the Haynes book, says to check with the starter relay switch or selonoid as some call it.

But, it is a 1992 Ranger 3.0L 2wd and I am not sure were it is located, I mean I believe I know and want to do the check that they mention with a jumper cable in the Haynes manual, but I do not want to connect the wrong thing.

Can anybody tell me on this year of truck were it is located, what it looks like and any other suggestions. Cause I am dead in the water right now. If it is not one thing it is another.

Any pictures or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


HELP!!!

Beast

When MY truck was warmed up and running for a while and I shut it off I would get a loud single click under the hood when trying to start it again ( starter relay on fender ) when truck cooled off it would start right up, after a few weeks of this I bought a new relay and my problem was over!!!

Now about a year later I started getting a loud single again so I thought it was the same thing so I bought the relay and changed it and still had the loud single click so I brought back the relay and put my other one back on and checked my starter and the starter was DEAD so I bought a new starter and that fixed it.!!

Sooooooooo two separate issues same exact noise.

 

[TaddeoEG]

As said, on the 92 the relay is on the passenger fender which makes it easy to rule in/out. Next time it won't start jump the relay with a heavy insulated screwdriver across the studs or a single jumper cable - just clamp on end to each connection. If it starts, its the relay. Simple, cheap fix. If not, it could be the connections, starter as mentioned or the battery.

On my 92 a few years ago the relay went out. Checked as above and replaced it. Worked great for months. Then Mom came down from up north and borrowed it to drive to NC. Up there it wouldn't start and (from her description) had the same symptoms, so I told her to have the relay checked. But turned out to be a bad battery.

With electrical issues many different things can exhibit the same or very similar symptoms. Gotta rule stuff out one at a time and makes sense to me to start with the simple. Pull and clean EVERY connection. If that doesn't do it, jump the relay. If that isn't it have the batt tested. If that isn't it, time to break down and pull the starter. But you'll hate yourself if you go to all the trouble of pulling the starter and it turns out to be a bad connection on the ground wire, for example.

 

[feellnfroggy]

As said, on the 92 the relay is on the passenger fender which makes it easy to rule in/out. Next time it won't start jump the relay with a heavy insulated screwdriver across the studs or a single jumper cable - just clamp on end to each connection. If it starts, its the relay. Simple, cheap fix. If not, it could be the connections, starter as mentioned or the battery.

This is what i was gonna suggest, however I got tired of looking for my screwdriver, I bought a pushbutton switch that does not lock on/off and wired it with two ends and ran it to the solenoid(relay, but the parts store labels it a solenoid too) You can use aligator clips. but this was alot easier than diggin for tools, I could leave it hooked up while I worked on the truck and whenever I needed no aiming or digging just push the button.