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HELP! Starter bad...or not?

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1973 Ford 2000, gas. Starter solenoid clicks rapidly when key is turned, starter does not engage or turn, battery fully charged. Pull starter, check w/ ohm meter and read 0.00 ohms between frame and positive stud. Huh. Thought there would be a little resistance here. Pull out jumper cables and place neg on starter body, positive on only terminal on starter. Connect to good battery and makes starter hums a bit, meter shows over 200 amps drawn. Ok, bad starter, order a new one on eBay. New starter exhibits the EXACT SAME symptoms as the old one. What are the odds, but I convince myself I bought a bad starter. Return it and buy another from different vendor. It arrives, and yep, same symptoms. Take this one to the local auto parts store, they bench test (computer controlled fancy tester), and IT WORKS! Get home tonight, and it does not work. I now know I must be an idiot and that you can"t connect a starter directly to a battery and get it to run...or am I? HELP - what am I doing wrong, or what other test can I do. My grass is now 10" tall and really needs mowed! Thanks in advance. Jim
 
Have you tryed taking every thing other than the starter out of the equation take a wire with to alligator clips and jump the starter button then take a screw driver and jump the to connections on the solenoid if that dosent work hopefully one of these other guys has a better aswer
 
so you are saying that you have a starter that a shop hooked up and said it is good and spins.. but at home when you jumper cable it it hums.

i'd be checking them jumper cables and batteries!
 
(quoted from post at 08:48:28 05/22/14) so you are saying that you have a starter that a shop hooked up and said it is good and spins.. but at home when you jumper cable it it hums.

i'd be checking them jumper cables and batteries!
Click to expand...
ome jumper cables are NOT worth carrying home! Fat diameter is all insulation on a 12GA wire. Will not start your tractor!
 
Correct. might be bad ( chitty ) cables... or bad battery.

I can't tell from his post.. but almost looks like he tried to spin it up with jump cables with starter not on tractor and it failed.

have seen plenty of 5$ 10G jump cables sold. makes ya wonder...
 
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