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Ken Midlam · Oct 3, 2016

trouble starting tractor, when I turn key I get a click some time starter will engage but not very often what to do

old · Oct 3, 2016

Clean tight and bright. Good chance you have a poor connection some place like at the battery cables or ground or the starter it self where it mounts has gotten rusty and not making good contact. If all of those are good then good chance your solenoid is going bad.

Steve@Advance · Oct 3, 2016

Some more info would be helpful.

Where is the click? Starter solenoid? Starter itself? Another area?

Is it a single click when trying to start? Or is it rapid fire series of clicks?

Does the stater try to turn? Does the starter spin but the engine does not?

IA Roy · Oct 3, 2016

Battery ok? Otherwise agree with other suggestions. Can you jumpstart to the large terminal on the starter, to see if starter is ok?

Texasmark1 · Oct 4, 2016

Supporting above suggestions and:

1. Charge battery and have it load checked. Load check should produce at least 11V at the batt. terminals when delivering 150 amperes. Wally world auto service bay has load checkers and Autozone and I guess O'Reilley's.

2. Clean-bright-tight. Don't forget to shine up the bolt and surface that makes the ground to the engine/tranny casting. Additionally, clean up the starter mounting bolts also.....return current has to go through the block, to the starter case to get to the brushes.

3. If all that works, just take a pair of common pliers and using the handles as a conductor,holding the jaws part in your hand, jumper across the solenoid. If the starter spins up good, the internal contacts of the solenoid are pitted and can't allow adequate current to the starter to spin it properly. Yeah it'll spark but won't hurt you or anything else. Touch the nuts so you don't booger up the threads of the ⅜" studs with the arc.

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