Okay, so the starter locks in, but the engine doesn't turn, and you can easily turn it over by hand? If yes, take a meter, connect it across the battery, and see what the voltage is, then engage the starter and see what it says. If the voltage is good at say 12.6-12.8 and engaging the starter doesn't drop the voltage at all, or only very little you have a bad battery connection or cable. To test which cable is the problem, take the meter and connect it from the battery negative to a clean spot on the engine block, you want to see very slight voltage like.005 volts or less. Turn the key, does the voltage stay at that very low level? Now do the same on the positive cable using the battery terminal and the battery post on the starter solenoid. Does it read the very low voltage and stay there? I'm thinking that one of those cables is going to show well over a full 2 or three volts, if one does, first clean the ends very well, and test again, if you still see the sane numbers the cable has failed internally. Replace it. For a faster test or if you don't have a meter handy, connect a set of jumper cables up in parallel to the battery cables, so one from battery negative to a good ground, try to start it, then from battery positive to the starter's battery feed terminal.
If you have the meter on the battery posts and do see it drop a lot when you turn the key, but still have no starter action you have a bad battery. To verify that you could try jumping the vehicle with another one or pull the battery and take it to be tested. I have seen brand new ones fail a load test due to internal damage.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021 AT 4:54 AM