Do you have at least 12-12.3 volts at your battery? When you turn the key to crank, how far does the voltage drop?

Joe

 

just a helpfull hint, next time your enjoying a coke, dump some on your battery post, will help clean them

 

Sounds like there is not a good ground between the engine one th - side of the battery. Or a bad starter. But you said it tested good. Hmm....

 

I'm thinking the battery itself is shot and not pushing enough... therefore the clicking at the voltage regulator.

 

the problem is what is making the battery shot, he said he just got a new one and it did it again, i think something else is causing a drain on the battery, i had a alternator going and it casused it cause it wassucking juice even when not running and the starter was sucking juice before it went, that is what it sounds like to me

 

Really?? Where did he say he replaced the battery??
sirlykalot8869...
If you have NOT tried a known good battery in it (got one you can swap out?), give it a try... you might have a dead cell.

 

oops my bad, i guess i got this string and a different one crossed up, i will sacrafice myself to a ride in a chevy truck at dawn

 

Sacrafice?!?!- Sit down in a chevy and you'll have to set fire to your a$$ just to get the mess off of you!

Joe

 

i was planning on bringing a piece of cardboard to sit on, just to be a little safer

 

First of all if you don't have a good test light and a Volt-ohm meter(preferably digital), then go get them, you can't do much troubleshooting without these. Now if you have taken all the other good advice here and are tired of throwing new parts at it then try a voltage drop test. Hook your voltmeter posative lead to the battery ground and the negative lead to the starter housing. Now try cranking and see what the voltage reads. If it is more than 1 volt then you have some bad connections some where on the ground circuit. Then you run the same test only now hook to the battery posative and the posative at the starter lug(not on the cable end at the stater or you will be eliminating that connection from your test). Same thing, 1volt or less is good. Over 1 volt means a bad connection.
Think like electricity was water pressure. If you dont have the valve fully on it can't run, Too small a hose and you can't get enough out the end(too small a wire). Bad connections(missing rubbers or loose connections on a garden hose) and the water can't all make it to the end. And if you don't have it hooked to a good source(fully charged healthy battery) then you don't have anything to go down the hose.
And be very cautios of making any determination by what jumping from another battery seems to indicate. The majority of inexpensive jumper cables are junk to start with and sometimes making a good enough connection with the clamps to carry the 300 or so amps it takes to put a starter into motion is difficult.
Always start your trouble shooting at the battery. Known good battery with clean connections. If you or a previuos owner has put those replacement ends on the battery cables. throw the cables out and go get new ones and get the heavy ones, no smaller than a 4 guage but 2 is better(smaller number, bigger wire). You can get you battery tested by hauling it, fully charged, to any good facility that sells batterys and have a load test put on it or better yet one of those electronic testers that actually tells you how much energy your battery has stored. It should have at leads 2 kilowatts, but this is a test only a very professional shop would do.

 

Wow, I think I got my strings crossed too. There must be another one just like this. I thought I had said that somewhere but its not here so it must have been somewhere else. Lots of good ideas there willowbilly3 if that don't find something it must not be broke.