Washed X yesterday, now won't start cuz I think the starter is froze

[unpredictable1]

Everything comes on when you first turn the key and then once you go the full key turn to start the vehicle she clicks...I know this is not a mechanical failure.

My question is how can i tap the starter to get her perculating? (i know the starter is somewher eunderneath i thought, if i had a stick can i hit it from above?

 

[IAmTodd]

Clicks usually mean a dead battery. Mine will do that too when its dead, and so will my quad. Check your battery. There might be enough juice to run the radio and stuff but not for the starter. And cold weather is hard on batteries.

Todd

 

[unpredictable1]

see she did this before, last year actually, right after i washed her. thats why i dont think its the battery.

 

[unpredictable1]

where is the starter motor located underneath? i don't feel like crawlin around under the X where she sits in the snow.

hopefully i can smack at it with a hockey stick to loosen it up

 

[unpredictable1]

nevermind i found it

 

[Hartman]

Did you wash the outside or the engine bay?

 

[IAmTodd]

Would the starter actually freeze though?

Todd

 

[Alec]

Either battery, totally dead starter, or bad integrated starter soleniod. Usually if the starter is dead it will still make noise though, so it's not getting juice. And if you hear clicks, then the fender mounted solenoid is good.

Therefore: battery or integrated solenoid.

 

[Alec]

Or it could just be the wires went bad.

 

[unpredictable1]

placed a 1500 watt electric heater (just the typical portable kind) right under the engine, used some card board boxes to seal off any wind passing from the back of the X underneath...

in less than an hour with this setup she started.

 

[DonM]

HeHe, thats funny! So this is just a temp fix?

Let us know when get it fixed.

 

[psychotic]

Its the electricity. My neg batt. terminal doesn't have a tight connection (the clamp doesn't get as tight as it used to). Some mornings (esp cold ones) it clicks like that. I pull off the neg and slip it back on and she starts up. I need to get a new battery terminal.... Dang i'm lazy.