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When try to start I get click click click.......
Broke down in highway.....boosted it and it started.......then half way home
bucking like crazy then shut down and now will not start with
boost.....click click click

Suggestions?
My guess starting motor

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:22:18 -0230, "Devils Advocate"
<AcuraGod@gmail.com> wrote:

>When try to start I get click click click.......
>Broke down in highway.....boosted it and it started.......then half way home
>bucking like crazy then shut down and now will not start with
>boost.....click click click
>
>Suggestions?
>My guess starting motor

Possibly. Also bad battery, bad battery connection, bad cables,
bad starter solenoid.

Try this. Turn headlights on. Try the starter. If the headlights do
not dim, the starter isn't drawing current or the starter solenoid
isn't letting current through. If the headlights dim, the starter is
drawing current but bad cables or connections aren't allowing enough
current to flow.

See also http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/

"Devils Advocate" <AcuraGod@gmail.com> wrote in
news:KoSdna-lnKyswsHfRVn-pQ@rogers.com:

> When try to start I get click click click.......
> Broke down in highway.....boosted it and it started.......then half
> way home bucking like crazy then shut down and now will not start with
> boost.....click click click
>
> Suggestions?
> My guess starting motor
>
>


Igniter, maybe.

http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/faq.html#stalling

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"Devils Advocate" <AcuraGod@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> When try to start I get click click click.......
> Broke down in highway.....boosted it and it started.......then half way
> home bucking like crazy then shut down and now will not start with
> boost.....click click click
>
> Suggestions?
> My guess starting motor
>
I'm thinking it's a more basic electrical problem. You have two symptoms -
failure to crank, and dying when it had been running. My hunch is a
connection in the battery wiring or similar.

I am especially puzzled by the sequence. It was running, then died but
started with a boost (suggesting the battery wasn't charging even though you
were on the highway)... then died with symptoms that are consistent with the
voltage fading away, but wouldn't crank even with a boost.

If you reach the point of needing to try *something* I'd recommend replacing
the battery (or swapping with another car) and replacing the battery
cables - or at least giving them a good inspection and cleaning.

Mike

I concur with Michael,
I've had relatively new cars with the same click-clicking and there was
nothing wrong except for the battery. Time to get a new battery...
"Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote in message
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> "Devils Advocate" <AcuraGod@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:KoSdna-lnKyswsHfRVn-pQ@rogers.com...
>> When try to start I get click click click.......
>> Broke down in highway.....boosted it and it started.......then half way
>> home bucking like crazy then shut down and now will not start with
>> boost.....click click click
>>
>> Suggestions?
>> My guess starting motor
>>
> I'm thinking it's a more basic electrical problem. You have two symptoms -
> failure to crank, and dying when it had been running. My hunch is a
> connection in the battery wiring or similar.
>
> I am especially puzzled by the sequence. It was running, then died but
> started with a boost (suggesting the battery wasn't charging even though
> you were on the highway)... then died with symptoms that are consistent
> with the voltage fading away, but wouldn't crank even with a boost.
>
> If you reach the point of needing to try *something* I'd recommend
> replacing the battery (or swapping with another car) and replacing the
> battery cables - or at least giving them a good inspection and cleaning.
>
> Mike
>

Its nothing to do w/ the battery as I installed a new one.
"John Ings" <nodamned@spam.org> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:22:18 -0230, "Devils Advocate"
> <AcuraGod@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>When try to start I get click click click.......
>>Broke down in highway.....boosted it and it started.......then half way
>>home
>>bucking like crazy then shut down and now will not start with
>>boost.....click click click
>>
>>Suggestions?
>>My guess starting motor
>
> Possibly. Also bad battery, bad battery connection, bad cables,
> bad starter solenoid.
>
> Try this. Turn headlights on. Try the starter. If the headlights do
> not dim, the starter isn't drawing current or the starter solenoid
> isn't letting current through. If the headlights dim, the starter is
> drawing current but bad cables or connections aren't allowing enough
> current to flow.
>
> See also http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/
>

New battery installed, and connection to battery are clean as whistle.
Now it could be wiring possibly or perhaps starter.
"mfb" <mflores@uh.edu> wrote in message
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>I concur with Michael,
> I've had relatively new cars with the same click-clicking and there was
> nothing wrong except for the battery. Time to get a new battery...
> "Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote in message
> news:XMGdne6l1_eT6sHfRVn-1Q@sedona.net...
>> "Devils Advocate" <AcuraGod@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:KoSdna-lnKyswsHfRVn-pQ@rogers.com...
>>> When try to start I get click click click.......
>>> Broke down in highway.....boosted it and it started.......then half way
>>> home bucking like crazy then shut down and now will not start with
>>> boost.....click click click
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>> My guess starting motor
>>>
>> I'm thinking it's a more basic electrical problem. You have two
>> symptoms - failure to crank, and dying when it had been running. My hunch
>> is a connection in the battery wiring or similar.
>>
>> I am especially puzzled by the sequence. It was running, then died but
>> started with a boost (suggesting the battery wasn't charging even though
>> you were on the highway)... then died with symptoms that are consistent
>> with the voltage fading away, but wouldn't crank even with a boost.
>>
>> If you reach the point of needing to try *something* I'd recommend
>> replacing the battery (or swapping with another car) and replacing the
>> battery cables - or at least giving them a good inspection and cleaning.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
>

"Devils Advocate" <AcuraGod@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> New battery installed, and connection to battery are clean as whistle.
> Now it could be wiring possibly or perhaps starter.

Although the starter wouldn't explain the dying.

Mike