hey everyone hows it going?

 

got a question about my ke70 4kc... when i turn key to start the car the battery light comes on and it makes the clicking sound but nothing happens.. lights work but no window wippers etc.. battery is fine as tried a brand new one.. any ideas??

 

cheers Jesse

Could be starter or a bad connection at the battery or ground I would say.

it happened to me before... have you try pulling out the whole connector on the battery? I cleaned it with sandpaper for good contact and it starts.. thought it was a broken relay.

My Celica makes a fast ticking noise when the batterys not quite dead but not enough to start it. Have you checked its got charge?

That is the sound of your starter solenoid jumping in and out as it hasn't got the grunt to lock in and turn the starter.

 

Check the wires on the starter, the big starter current one and the smaller solenoid activator, a pig of the job. Check the earth from the motor to the chassis and chassis to battery. If you tried a new battery that had full charge, then somewhere else in the circuit is a bad connection that is stopping power flow.

 

If the wiring is fine, the problem will be inside the solenoid where there are two big contacts that pass power to the starter windings. Either strip and check it yourself or have a sparkie reco the starter.