My dad has a 94 Ranger 3.0 V6 160 thous miles, who doesn't believe in taking to a shop to have it fixed right. The problem is when you try to start it , periodically it clicks no crank. After a while it will start on its own. It will not take a jump. Starter relay been replaced. Two year old starter. To me it sounds like the ignition switch is going bad. Any ideas?
Cheap auto parts store rebuilt starter that's failing again.
I would guess that your Dad has had bad experience with repair shops. He is not alone in that !
One possibility is the battery. A "dead cell" (or mostly dead cell) can behave like that. After you try to start it a couple of times the battery will warm up and then magically have enough juice to crank. The dead cell acts as an electrical "open" before that and hence the it won't jump start.
If the cranking speed is changing as you crank it (it warms up) then that points straight to the battery. I don't think anything to do with the starter or starter relay can do that.
If you bought the one-year-warranty special at Autozone this could be. Otherwise clean the bettery posts, and the grounds and the connections on the starter again.
You can always take the starter into AZ and have them check it, that would eliminate one possible problem anyway.
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