Went to start my truck this morning, and nothing happened. All lights, gauges, and anything electrical worked. Voltage at at battery was 12.8. Didn't even hear clicking from the solenoid. It acts the same way as when you try to start the truck without the clutch pushed in. Based on that, the neutral safety switch could be bad, but how do you check the switch? If not the NSS, what else could be the culprit? Thank in advance for the help.

 

check the battery connections. ive had mine corrode and do that exact same thing, with electrics working but no action from the starter. probably not it but worth checking

 

X100!!! ^

 

Battery terminals were good, even cleaned and tried again to no avail. Thanks though.

 

looks like its time for a bump start. dont know what to tell you except my last ranger (manual tranny) did that exact thing and the starter just failed

 

mine did this then it fixed its self after about 2 hours lol i still to this day don't know what happened

i even tried to jump start it and nothing

 

Try it with another battery

 

Test the load strength of the battery, check the connections on the starter too maybe one worked lose. oh and maybe get the starter checked just to be sure.

 

yeah try to roll start it, if that doesnt work then try having the starter tested it might just be that. and as for the NSS i dont know how to test that.

 

thanks everyone, well, i think it is the starter actually, because i got under the truck and hit the starter a couple times. Truck started right up, and is working fine for the time being. Already sitting at the shop to get a new starter in the morning. It was just weird I thought that the starter went out without any noise at all, not even a clicking.

 

Nope whenever the starter goes out it'll make the clicking noise. Atleast it's what it did when mine and my mom's went out.

 

Therefore it must always happen to everyone? I think not.

 

Security System?

 

Didn't really mean to make it sound like that. But from what I've experienced, when the starter goes out you get the clicking. But I know that that doesn't happen to EVERYBODY.

 

Normally whenever a starter goes out on me, the solenoid normally clicks and kinda starts acting sluggish before hand. This time no warning or clicking, but a new starter seems to have fixed it.

 

same thing i had to do go and hit the started soliniod aand have some one start the trcuk and im replacing the starter this week, same problem

 

i haven't had any problems since I changed my starter, everything is working great now (other than a wobble in the front end, but thats a different problem). hopefully a new starter will solve your problem.

 

let hope becasue i have tp put it in by the end of this week :)