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I've load tested my battery- but sometimes the key is dead or makes sounds like a bad connection- but everything is clean. The alternator is charging...once started, it operates fine..starter selonoid?
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  • FormulabenFormulaben Confirm Email, Member Posts: 108 ✭✭
    edited November 11
    Assuming it's not the neutral safety switch, it could be a bad key switch, slave solenoid (starter relay) near the ECM, or (master) starter solenoid.  I just posted about this hours ago...

    Here is a generic key switch.  Definitely check that you don't have a bad switch with the multi-meter; you can alternatively "jump" the terminals with 2 alligator clips to see if the switch is bad. 



    If jumping the starter solenoid works well, then go "upstream" to the slave solenoid (start relay, as I prefer to more accurately call it) which is next to the other 2 relays near your ECM and engine circuit breaker.  Jump those 2 terminals and if it turns over then I think you found your problem. 

    It's #23 in this diagram: 
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    2006 Fiesta Vee 270
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awesome, thanks
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