Chrysler Repair: 1993 Voyager 3.0 v6, side fender, voyager 3

Question
Again thank you for your last input on my problem. Well im am getting a bit closer, a friend of mine came by to give me a boost, still no response. Earlier today before the jump start I tried to turn the engine over a few times, all I heard was a clicking sound a few times with each turn of the key, then after the next few turns of the key, it went to a very soft clicking sound. So when we were trying to jump start I asked him to listen very closley to where that soft click was coming from. There are 5 little box type relays in a row on the driver side fender. We bothfound out it was the one in the middle where that soft click was coming from.Could you please let me know what those are what that middle box is. Sorry I dont know the technical name for those parts. Yeah we both knew that it might not be the battery after all. I appreciate your quickness to your last response thank you. Onr more thing , it did look like that those parts I described were labled but wore off in time.

Answer
Hi Alex,
You found the starter relay. It should click once when you apply the ignition key to the "start" position, not click multiply. Now it is possible that there is a problem with the wiring from the relay to the interlock switch on the transmission that is designed to prevent you from starting the car when it is in gear, or that interlock switch itself could have some resistance in its contacts, or the wire from that switch to ground could have some resistance in the connections. For the relay to operate well it has to get a full voltage from the ignition switch and the pathway that I just described needs to have very little resistance so the current through the relay is large enough to close the relay contacts inside the relay and hold them closed (e.g. one click only). On the otherhand, the relay could be faulty. A new starter relay is not that expensive, so I would suggest you buy one from Chrysler or a reputable parts store and unplug the old one and plug in the new one and see if that solves the problem. You might want to verify that the starter solenoid and motor are o.k. by bypassing the entire circuit I described and jumping the starter solenoid directly. That way you can verify that the starter is o.k. If you can access the wires connected to the starter you will see there is a large red one and a smaller brown one. The red one is attached directly to the battery so be careful not to ground it when you attach any thing to it or there will be instant vaporization of the wire that you accidentally grounded, producing burns if you were holding the wire. So what you would do is attach one end of a wire that has an alligator clip on it to the terminal where the brown wire is located. Then carefully touch the other end of the wire to the terminal that the red wire is attached to. The starter should jump into action for the moment that you touch the jumper to the red wire's terminal. If it does, then you know for certain there is nothing wrong with the starter motor or its solenoid (the thing that the brown wire is attached to), and so the problem is indeed in the relay or its associated wiring. If it doesn't jump to life then there is something wrong with your starter.
But, why not try a new relay. I can't guarantee that will fix it, but it is worth a try. If you have the automatic transmission things that I described above in the wiring from the relay to the safety switch and then to ground are actually a bit more complicated, but let us cross that bridge if we have to.
Roland