I have a 1987 Ford F350 with a 460 big block.I replaced all the wires in between the battery and the starter as well as the key to the starting solenoid and connectors battery starter starter solenoid, but no matter what I do I cannot get this truck to crank over I’ve tried taking a jumper cable and replacing grounds and replacing powerlines and stuff like that, but it does not change the fact that all I can get is a click when I turn the key

 

Have you checked the wires to the starter? Have you tried using a screw driver on the solinoid to turn it over? Does it click out and not spin? Does it just clunk? Little more info would help.

 

I replaced all of the wires to the starter, starting solenoid and battery. They’re all brand new when I skipped to the starting solenoid it just clicks that’s all it does nothing else besides the click when I turn the key it just clicks. And I’ve had the starter tested the starter works. It’s a good starter. It just doesn’t work on my vehicle and all it does is click so I highly doubt that it spins out or is even trying to catch on something it’s just clicking

 

Your starter may be bad or weak I would pull it and bench test it if it doesn't turn over then its bad. If it does then it either could be weak or your engine is super tight for some reason or its not engaging correctly. If its a new starter compare old and new and check tooth count.

 

I’ve had problems with getting bad starters before so before I installed the starter, I took it to a family friend’s house and had it tested so the starter 100% works it has the exact tooth count on the one that I took out. It’s the exact same starter. also, I thought that the engine might be locked up, so I took all the spark plugs and then turned it by hand, turning the engine by hand with no issues.

 

Is your engine locked up? Try turning the crank and seeing if it doesn't move we got bigger problems lol. But if its just fine then that starter isn't getting enough power or something is inhibiting it. Or its just a super weak out of the box starter. Most likely power related I would check the voltage out of the wires at the starter.

 

Engine is not locked up. I could spin it by hand like I said in my last post I took all the spark plugs out and just tried spending the engine, put the spark plugs back in, and you could still spin the engine by hand. It was a lot harder, but doable and not trying to be an *** because I know you’re trying to help but what do you not understand about? I had the starter tested I know for a fact that it is a good starter. It could be because the starter is not getting enough power, but that still doesn’t make sense because it’s a new battery and new power cables.

 

That is weird. Sorry I misread the post.What kind of starter did you get like brand wise and where did you buy it from? The only thing I could think of being the issue is the starter being weak (For some ungodly reason.) or its just not properly engaging the flex plate or flywheel. I've never had a 460 all I know is there big and a lot to turn over. I'm trying my best lol with what I know.

 

have you tested the battery? known good starter, known good cables, and a click from starter relay tells me you have a bad battery.

 

I never thought of that always look for the simple issues I guess lol maybe I shouldn't be posting help on here lol...

 

mehhhh. no one is perfect.....
sometimes even I have good idears.

 

I definitely appreciate everyone that’s posting and trying to help me work through this. It is a brand new reman starter from Napa when I had it tested it was getting the correct voltage and spinning out correctly and it’s a brand new battery and I’m reading high enough volts on the battery that there’s no way that the battery bad like you guys said I’m thinking it’s not getting enough power somehow so I know a lot of these older vehicles used to be set up to where it had two batteries. Mine is not so I’m just going to put my second battery that I bought in and try to get everything to wire it together and see if that helps.

 

Battery may just not have the beans to give to that 460 big motor needs CCA. Your wires may be just to weak to give enough amps or the wire is shorted or grounded improperly I would clean the battery wire ground. Clean all connections even if new some things have paint on them that block voltage.

 

Take a one side of a jumper cable and attach to the battery and the other end on the starter side of solenoid. Does it spin then? If not, hand another vehicle you can hand running and connect the battery side to? I had a New solenoid fail on the second use…

 

as said above,, jump from battery directly to starter side of the starter relay. if engine turns over, the "new" fender mount starter relay is bad. since the introduction of cheap chinesium parts, i have at times had 5 "brand new" chinesium starter relays bad in a row, rite out of the box.