The other day I went out to start my car and the starter just clicked very rapidly. I tried several times and still got the same thing. Figured it might be the battery so I tried to jump it but it did the same thing. I also had lights, radio and horn so I did not think it was the battery. The next day I tried a new starter my friend had and it did the same thing. Then we tried his battery just to make sure and still just clicking. Finally we pop started it and it fired right up and ran completely fine. Today I went out and tried it again and sometimes it would not click and just make a humming noise coming from the battery. One weird thing was that I checked the starter signal fuse and it does the same thing with or without the fuse. I don't know if this means anything but I thought that it was odd.

 

i would make sure your getting a good connection on the terminal poles for the battery and also if they are corroded pour coca cola on them and it will eat away the build up on the terminals. And to think we all drink coke.

 

check the chassie ground going to the tranny. also try grounding it directly to the starter,ive had it happen to me

 

i already stripped new ends on the battery to start wire so it has good connections. Also the tranny ground is good because the car ran fine when i pop started it and usually there would be a problem with idle if it had bad grounds.

 

but when you push start it your not using the starter. ive had it happen to me,try running the ground to one of the starter bolts and see what happens. it cant hurt anything

 

You have a connection problem some place, a clicking starter solenoid is a sign of low current, enough to trigger solenoid, [click on] but not enough the turn starter motor, [click off], so click, click, click, click.
A low batt. would cause this, but you say a boost and another batt. did not solve problem.
Poor grounding would cause this, but you say the grounds are good.
Poor power connections would cause it, but you say you have checked them.
A bad starter, [short] would cause it, but you say you tried a new one.

Which means you missed something.

So as 4g hatch mentioned, check grounding by connecting the jumper cable from the batt. neg.(-) directly to the starter motor, if no diff. connect the jumper cable from the batt. pos.(+) to the batt. post on starter motor. 94

 

ok thanks for the response. i did say i tried everything but i am sure there is somthing i missed and that is what i am hoping. ill try the jumper cables. its just weird that this happened so out of the blue.

 

i'm having somewhat the same problem as the OP...

I get power to the cluster, radio, headlights, etc. My car starts when i jump start it but can't start by itself. When i try starting the car the whole car shuts down and i get no power to my interior or headlights. Also i get a loud click from both my main relay and the starter. I tried banging on the starter and putting in a working main relay but still i get nothing. What could be the problem? Just the starter itself? Or as some of you said my ground/connections is bad?

 

Run an external ground from the battery to the thermostat ground wires, also try taking a peek under the drivers side dash and see if the starter wire off the ignition that goes to the fuse panel (most honda is a Black w/White tracer) is a clean 12.4+ Volts. This combined with what fcm has mentioned already should show the problem.

 

Op If you have solved the problem please post the solution for others.