Tried to start now nothing.

Replaced starter went to turn over and batt was flat. Put a bit of charge in battery and she tried to.fire up but battery went low so hooked up to a 62 plate astra and it cranked a few times then stopped. No attempt to turn over at all. All fuses are ok. Any ideas guys?

New starter or second hand?
Engine earth straps ok?
Heavy cable connectors all tight and clean?
Is there a clicking from the solenoid when key turned to start position?

SmileySteve said:

New starter or second hand?
Engine earth straps ok?
Heavy cable connectors all tight and clean?
Is there a clicking from the solenoid when key turned to start position?

Click to expand...

No clicking. Just nothing, second hand starter but trust where it came from. Could be bad earth will recheck them in morning. Didn't get anything done today took little one ice skating

Once ya checked the earths / connections can always run a cable direct from the battery and dab it carefully on the terminal for the starter solenoid, if it engages and spins then you have a wiring fault from the ignition.
Good luck!

Just had this on a tractor. Took starter off, removed brush box, cleaned the end of the commutator, lubed the bearings, checked the solenoid then reassembled then bench tested all good. Works great, just wish I hadn't bought a new one thinking it was properly dead!

So really I think I would take it off and bench test, it isn't too bad to do. Once it's off just get a decent battery charger/starter, put negative on the motor housing, positive on the main solenoid terminal then short to the small terminal (NOT the ground) solenoid should throw and motor spin (hopefully).

Sometimes a starter can get stuck ingauged if the power drops off when cranking
Many a time ive had to put a car in gear hand brake off an rock it
On a wagon you have to turn them on the ring gear

if all those fail, then try putting a jumper cable from batt pos to starter as sometimes the pos lead from batt to starter becomes resistive under heavy current draw. will measure ok on resistance test but try it. you should have solenoid clicking tho even if it's this.

Have you rocked it back and forth a bit in gear just in case the starter has jammed in the engaged position?

sidewinder said:

Have you rocked it back and forth a bit in gear just in case the starter has jammed in the engaged position?

Click to expand...

Didn't try that batt is on charge tonight so I'll give that a go along with jumper cable direct if that fails then it's starter off.

clean and remake the main earth at theback of recoil mounting bracket on the front pass. side above the headlight or at least blast it with wd40 etc and nip it up if you aren't getting even the starter splendid to click.

This happened to me and was caused by me knocking the little +12v IGN wire off the tab enough to lose connection. I did this fitting the fat +12v to the solenoid.

My original starter was changed however as the windings were dragging in the motor and it was drawing mega amps thus flattening the battery on one crank! Not good. As yours is a used starter, it may have a similar issue and your battery unless tip top, just won't cope a cold start with that kind of load on it. My battery was brand new and was barely coping with it plus a jumped from my Mondeo and even that wouldn't get it going at 2500RPM! It was drawing enough current to mean the ignition system wasn't working correctly as well so it was turning slowly and not firing, or that was my suspicion. Testing the starter not under load will tell you nowt about this kind of issue.

A second hand starter fixed this for me.

Good luck