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Old May 29, 2017 | 03:20 PM
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My starter will not run or make a click noise to indicate it wants to crank.
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Old May 29, 2017 | 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by s1976
My starter will not run or make a click noise to indicate it wants to crank.
If your car is an automatic trans make sure the shifter is all the way up to engage the safety switch. It happens.
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Old May 30, 2017 | 10:42 AM
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Is the battery good and are the cables connections clean and tight?

Does the horn, lights and other electronic work?
Stick or automatic.
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Just to the right of the distributor on the firewall is the 6-way connector for the starter extension harness. That plug tends to get hot and corrode, that caused more heat and more corrosion. Good place to start any troubleshooting for starter problems.
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Originally Posted by ykf7b0
If your car is an automatic trans make sure the shifter is all the way up to engage the safety switch. It happens.
Darn right it happens, I sat in a parking lot for 20 minutes one day thinking something was terribly wrong LOL!
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