nonickatall
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I have a problem with my truck. it won't crank.
I had that problem a month ago as well a few times and I swapped the battery, after that it didn't happen again.
Today I helped someone who had a problem with his car. His battery was empty, so I bridged his battery with my battery while my engine was running. I checked the other car for error codes and noticed that my engine was had stopped for whatever reason.
After that i tried to crank, but nothing happens.
I thought first: My battery is low and I put on a charger.
The battery is new and now full and when I turn on the ignition, I have normal lights in my instrument cluster.
When I switch to start, I have the lights going away, like normal.
But there is no crank, so I first removed my right wheel and measured at my starter, if current is available. I can measure ground to ground and I have 12 Volt at the power line, from the battery.
On the line which controls the magnetic switch of the starter, there is no 12 Volt, when I let someone start the truck.
So I looked for the starter relay. I swapped the starter relay with the equal relay next to it, with "park lp", whatever that means. No change.
So I looked for the description on the relay and I measured between 87 an 86, but there is no current, so it seems that something else don't work.
I tried to bridge 30 to 85 but the starter don't crank as well.
When I switch on the ignition. There is this sign with the lock. I'm not sure if that is always there.
Does anybody have an idea, where I can start to search for the problem?
Best regards from Germany
Ralf
I had that problem a month ago as well a few times and I swapped the battery, after that it didn't happen again.
Today I helped someone who had a problem with his car. His battery was empty, so I bridged his battery with my battery while my engine was running. I checked the other car for error codes and noticed that my engine was had stopped for whatever reason.
After that i tried to crank, but nothing happens.
I thought first: My battery is low and I put on a charger.
The battery is new and now full and when I turn on the ignition, I have normal lights in my instrument cluster.
When I switch to start, I have the lights going away, like normal.
But there is no crank, so I first removed my right wheel and measured at my starter, if current is available. I can measure ground to ground and I have 12 Volt at the power line, from the battery.
On the line which controls the magnetic switch of the starter, there is no 12 Volt, when I let someone start the truck.
So I looked for the starter relay. I swapped the starter relay with the equal relay next to it, with "park lp", whatever that means. No change.
So I looked for the description on the relay and I measured between 87 an 86, but there is no current, so it seems that something else don't work.
I tried to bridge 30 to 85 but the starter don't crank as well.
When I switch on the ignition. There is this sign with the lock. I'm not sure if that is always there.
Does anybody have an idea, where I can start to search for the problem?
Best regards from Germany
Ralf
