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Pickup Wont Start - Just Makes This Odd Clicking Sound

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Lanse

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In todays episode of "Please help me fix my fords' electrical issues", we have... Drumroll please... My 2004 Super Duty with 5.4 Gas Engine which refuses to start. All it does is make the sound you hear in the video - and absolutely nothing else.

I'm guessing it might be a relay? I put a volt meter on the battery and it reads ~12.4 volts between the terminals.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance everyone!
 
I'm guessing it might be a relay? I put a volt meter on the battery and it reads ~12.4 volts between the terminals.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance everyone!
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Loaded or unloaded?
 
A battery can have enough juice to make the solenoid click but not have enough juice to turn the engine over. Get someone to jumper it for you before you do anything else. If it turns the engine over with a jump start it is a bad batter or poor connections to the battery. First things first.
 
Okay, so I ran out and discovered that 12.4 volts goes down to 4-6 volts as the truck is trying to crank. What should it be? Does this sound too low?
 
(quoted from post at 17:28:49 03/06/17) Okay, so I ran out and discovered that 12.4 volts goes down to 4-6 volts as the truck is trying to crank. What should it be? Does this sound too low?
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Well.............let me see,

12 volt system right?????

4 - 6 won't cut it, so as said above it could be connections or the battery is toast.

How old is the battery?
 
I got it used in 2014 and it was a couple years old then IIRC :D

Its a higher end NAPA battery...
 
NAPA batteries, even their higher-end ones, have had a number of problems over the last several years. We replace about one a year in our plow truck, usually when it suddenly won't start on a cold morning after not having problems up to that point. Only reason we stay with NAPA batteries in that particular truck is that it's what it had in it when we got it and the local NAPA has been good about replacing them under warranty. They'll test it, and if it shows up bad on their tester (not sure of model, but a garage-style jobbie with full load testing capability, not a simple multi-meter) they'll replace it. A full load test on the battery is probably the best place to start, and go from there.
 
One quick and easy test is just turn on the headlights and then try to start it. If it clicks and they go dim at the same time, you lack battery power. If it clicks and the headlights stay bright - then it is likely a switch/relay issue, bad brushes in the starter, etc.
 
(quoted from post at 17:35:09 03/06/17) I got it used in 2014 and it was a couple years old then IIRC :D

Its a higher end NAPA battery...
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Ya, higher end and at the end of its life.

As Jim said, charge it and then get it tested with a proper load tester.

No doubt it is time for a replacement.

5 years is pretty good on a vehicle battery.
 
Some times they used 2 solenoids. One on the fender and one on the starter. I have had the spade terminal on the starter solenoid be loose and dirty.
 
As far as I know, when your gauges go all the way up and then back down, you don't have enough voltage. Our '02 7.3l does the same thing when it is dead.
 
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