When I did my SE swap back a few years ago I ran a SE starter seeing as the 12a one was shot anyways last year I thought it died because all it would do is click and not turn the motor over so I bought a new one.Now its doing the same stupid clicking noise.I change the 2 power wires and it did squat so I think my problem is the stock ground wire(same thing happened to my friends 2001 ram diesel).Where should I run the ground from?The chassis or the battery?I plan on running some 1 or 2 guage wire for it in the morning.



Thanks

 

From memory, stock ground is to the battery.



Though I have heard (from the car stereo game), that grounds should always go the car body and never to the battery. Just make sure you have a nice fat wire coming from the neg terminal to the car body.



Ahh, too much conflicting information in my head!

 

Ground it to the chassis, I had the same problem. I put in a brand new starter and it did that when I first hooked it up. I bought brand new battery cables and still nothing, but when I grounded it to the chassis, it worked like a charm.

 

MAN I'M HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM! erright....so i just ground the negitive cable from the battery to the chassis?

 

You can.I plan on 3 grounds tommorow tho.1 to the chassis another to the motor and tranny then the last one is going to be from the starter to the chassis.Lets hope this solves my new problem.Then I need to tune it and start drifting again. Thanks everyone

 

This is odd. I have my starter hooked up to the stock ground, however, i have relocated the battery and it has its own ground. And it still starts JUST fine every time.....

 

If that doesn't work you can fix your starter. All you have to do is take it apart and clean the brushes. I have done this to mine once, works like a charm and starts just like new.

 

Starter is new tho.Has about a month of use on it.

 

That only works for so long.

Once the internals wear down, its better to just replace than keep trying to drag more life with cleaning.

 

Yea, I was just too cheap to get one at the time.. I was playing high school basketball and didn't work.. But cleaning it has lasted for over a year.. so it worked just fine for me. But I do need a new one.