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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 12:39 AM
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well its a 1992 7.3L diesel single cab f250

so it was going great till just about a week ago when I had to jump it... I left it running ran inside to talk to my friend and when I came out it was dead (might have been his neighbor she likes to turn things off) . later I charged up the batteries and jump it, all it will do when I turn the key is make one click and that’s it.

my friend says that the noise was not coming from the starter... so starter solenoid needs replacing or...?

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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 01:17 AM
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i hate neighbor that do that cause it lound last neighbor got egged i would say get the starter tested it free
how many volts after u where dont chargeing it it takes a lot of volt to sart these trucks
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 01:25 AM
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I have 3 batteries
first time I charged them half full (sorry don’t know the volts) and then jumped it with a minivan
2nd time charged them half full tried it with the minivan didn’t work, then tried it with a car and a minivan didn’t work
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 01:45 AM
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is there any pools of diesel on thetop of the motor
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 01:46 AM
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nope no pools of diesel
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 01:53 AM
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how old is the starter
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 01:56 AM
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i would have to say as far as i know its the original
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:02 AM
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dose it wake a clicking noisie like when the bats dead
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:11 AM
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theres only one click and yeah i would say so
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:16 AM
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form my hanes maunle for these truck to check solenoid connect jumper wire a between the battery (+)and the ignition switch wire terminal (the small terminal) on the solenoid if the starter motor operates the solenoid is okay and the problem is in the ignition switch neutral start switch or the wires
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:20 AM
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k will try that when i can see what im doing and stupid question wheres the solenoid
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:23 AM
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it should be on the passnger side of te truck
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:26 AM
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its on top of the fender right
a small plastic like box?
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 02:33 AM
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oh ur going to have fun it on the starter motor it self i just looked it up
 
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Old Oct 28, 2009 | 08:21 AM
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Last time I had this problem I replaced the batteries (turned out they were like 6 years old), then a short time later it did it again- replaced the starter solenoid and it was fine again.

The second time, I'm still wondering if it really was the solenoid or if it was just a bad connection...but I boogered up the solenoid taking it off so I had to replace it anyway. Starter tested OK.
 
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