Have you tried jump starting the truck?

 

Yes. I got it to work once and it didn’t work the second time. Triple A put their jump pack on it and bypassed the battery and it didn’t start. Not sure what to make of that.

 

what type of battery and how old is it? Go to an auto zone not advance auto and have them re test your battery.

 

I got it through triple A last winter. My 4 year old battery died on the coldest day of the winter and they came to change it. It’s only 6 months old

 

Where is the click coming from?
Sounds like a bad connection at the battery terminal, or a cable full of corrosion.

 

I thought I had a bad starter as I would get clicking sounds when I tried to start. It would turn over on occasion and go back to giving me problems.

My head is spinning right now I’m just trying to get my truck running so any help would be appreciated. I’m sorry for being all over the place in my post. Someone mentioned possibly a starter relay so I can look into that.

Has anyone ever experienced this before? Good starter, battery and alternator and have clicking when starting and not turn over? Any suggestions would be really helpful!

Welcome to Club Frontier!! Sorry to hear about your Starting Issues....

First & Foremost, what year is your truck? Automatic Or Manual Transmission? This is important to determine what feedback to give you regarding your Starting Issues...

2nd... Have you checked your battery wires? No loose connections at the battery terminal or loose connection at the Negative Ground wire to the fender/frame? if you have a loose connection at the battery terminal try adding a battery post shim cap to tighten up the connection at the battery terminals. Hopefully it's just a loose battery terminal that's causing all your issues....

https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/super-start/battery-accessories/battery-accessories/battery-terminal---universal/393e97768e9a/super-start-battery-post-shims/ss01/08584

Get back to us with the year of your truck and whether it's manual transmission or automatic...

 

Thanks for the response! I have a 2014 frontier 4 cylinder 2.5 L automatic. I checked the battery connections they weren’t loose. I’ll clean off the leads tomorrow and see if that helps.

 

A rapid clicking on starting is due to not enough amps going to the starter. Typically a result of the battery but can be other things like a bad connection as mentioned. One thing is to check the CCA of the replacement battery could have installed the wrong battery.

 

You need to check the terminals at both ends of each battery cable. My initial thought was the ground cable has a bad connection, either at the battery or the block. But there is one cable issue that is hard to find and is often overlooked and that is corrosion where the wire is connected to the battery end terminal itself, both pos and neg. This is covered over with insulation on molded factory cables so you really can't see it. Best fix for this is the terminals where the wires go into a hole and are clamped down with an allen screw. They run about $15+ per terminal, money well spent.

One way to detect this is to remove the cable from the battery, hold it up near your good ear and then bend the cable at the terminal and listen for a sort of crunching sound. Do this with both cables. This usually only occurs at the battery terminal end because at the other end, you can see the wires going into the barrel of that terminal.

Also make sure the ignition wire to the starter is getting a solid connection. Most are screw down but sometimes the spade type are used and they can have issues.

 

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the starter solonoid.

 

The OP replaced the starter already.

 

for a heads up inside the nippondenso starter are 2 brass wiring contacts, the the soilinode pulls a brass washer like ring into contact with those studs, they are well known to starter shops for burning out causing that click/click issue,

 

if needed it's a simple repair, just be very cautious when doing the work, one must keep the starter as seen in the video tightly upright as there is a small ball bearing the plunger pin rides on that can fall out of place making for a shop repair ver, a under 20 buck self fix,