1998 Jeep Wrangler 4.0 L
I left my lights on for the whole night in the dead of winter and killed my battery. (a relatively new battery) A week later (weekend jeep driver)
I tried starting and just got a clickity-click out of it, so I tried using an old jumper pack and still nothing. I thought the jumper pack was defunct.
I put a trickle charge on it an it too didn't charge the battery. Just managed a single rotation on the start, then the famous clickity-click.
A mechanic said the starter was likely starting seize. We jumped it with a running truck. The same slow turnover one or 2 revolutions. I looked at the
connections on the battery post and the positive side had some what loose wires in the crimped terminal. I replaced the positive wire terminal.
Same slow turnover then nothing. I had the starter replaced. No change! Well I thought, now I'm down to the plus or ground to the starter.
I got a jumper cable and went from the negative to the manifold bolt on the motor block assuming the engine had a crappy ground.
Bingo! the starter worked perfect. I'm guessing that was the problem all along. My old starter was probably OK.
The mechanic just took my temporary ground wire from the engine manifold and just connected it to the body frame.
So, I'm wondering does the ground from the battery go to the frame and somewhere else the engine is connected to the frame to get the ground connection?
I left my lights on for the whole night in the dead of winter and killed my battery. (a relatively new battery) A week later (weekend jeep driver)
I tried starting and just got a clickity-click out of it, so I tried using an old jumper pack and still nothing. I thought the jumper pack was defunct.
I put a trickle charge on it an it too didn't charge the battery. Just managed a single rotation on the start, then the famous clickity-click.
A mechanic said the starter was likely starting seize. We jumped it with a running truck. The same slow turnover one or 2 revolutions. I looked at the
connections on the battery post and the positive side had some what loose wires in the crimped terminal. I replaced the positive wire terminal.
Same slow turnover then nothing. I had the starter replaced. No change! Well I thought, now I'm down to the plus or ground to the starter.
I got a jumper cable and went from the negative to the manifold bolt on the motor block assuming the engine had a crappy ground.
Bingo! the starter worked perfect. I'm guessing that was the problem all along. My old starter was probably OK.
The mechanic just took my temporary ground wire from the engine manifold and just connected it to the body frame.
So, I'm wondering does the ground from the battery go to the frame and somewhere else the engine is connected to the frame to get the ground connection?
