[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Passion86

Okay, so I was finally able get a friend to run out and do some tests with me. What I found was the starter making the click noise is because of low amperage, like you suggested Tcoat, but when I would hook it up to the truck the starter would make the whining noise like in the first video. I took the starter off, and plugged everything back up to see what it's doing, and the solenoid is pushing the gear out, but not spinning. This is the same with both starters I have, but I'm leaning towards getting a new starter, as the one I bought was off a wrecked FRS. I took some video below to show how the starter is sticking and not turning. Before I took the video, the stater did exactly what is shown in the video below, but also made the whining noise when it wouldn't turn. That's when I pulled the camera out to try and get it on video, but it wouldn't make the noise again, and I stopped when I noticed that battery cables to the starter started smoking. I took that harness apart, and found an exposed area on the negative cable to the starter, then further down on the cable the plastic around the cable had started to melt. I've got a new set of battery cables on the way, but I want to find out why it did what it did, so I don't melt the new cables, unless it was from the first exposed section of wire I found, where there is no evidence of the plastic melting? Tried uploading pics of the exposed cables, but I need to resize them to the appropriate size to upload them. So, anyone got any idea what may be going on?

You are still not getting enough amps to the starter. If you had wires heat up then there is resistance someplace in the line. You may have pinched a wire someplace along the way and that would account for the low amps and the resistance.