Hi there, you're wondering why ATV clicks when you try to start it? I just had the same issue and I'm going to show you the procedure I went through to check to see what the problem was and I also found out what it was and I'm going to show you how I fix it. Okay, so what was happening with the Suzuki Iiger 400 is I was trying to start it and I would just hear a clicking sound. Click, click, click, click, click. So what I did was I had someone come out and help me and what I did was I grabbed a hammer and a long steel rod and I just lightly tapped that rod onto the starter and it fired up. So I know that my starter was the culprit here. That's where the problem is. But what you want to do to make sure that your starter is or isn't the culprit here and to find out where the problem is. This first you want to check these connections here on your battery. Make sure they're tight, not corroded. You want to check the connections on your starter for the same thing. Make sure they're not corroded or loose. And then you want to take a test light like this and you can test to make sure that you're getting juice to everywhere, to your battery, to your solenoid. You might have to turn the key on and check the connection at the starter as well. And make sure that you're getting power everywhere. If you're getting power everywhere, then it's a good chance it's your starter. So of course you will need to remove the sides, the plastic sides here, before you can access your starter and you'll have to remove your seat before you can access the solenoid in the battery. So I have already removed the starter. And as you can see, here's the hole where the starter goes into here and hooks up to these gears inside here and turns it. Turns the flywheel to start your engine. So I have removed it. All I had to do was undo two, what, this cable and another cable. So a live cable and a ground cable. And two bolts. I had done one here and one here. I think you can see that. That's all I had to do is two bolts. And I removed it. It just slides out of there. No problem. Okay, here we have the starter on the bench. I've already had this apart, but what you do is you, there's two bolts here. You remove those. And this will come off. And then this will come apart. The base here. That'll seem a little funny coming apart there because there's magnets inside here. So this is what you got. And this here sat here like this. And when you turn on your ignition, the sense of charge through here and what happens is it engages these brushes. I'll show you that. These are brushes. And what happens is these brushes here. Arc against the armature. Now what happened here with this after much use and a lot of use. These brushes will break down. And inside here it's all sealed, right? So it doesn't get wet. It gets all like a dust off these brushes. It all builds up in here. It's quite a bit actually. So that causes an issue too. And you have to get all that cleaned out as well. I took a bit of emery cloth to this and cleaned it all up. And I clean these grooves out too. With a... Well, I just used my test light. That was good enough, but something pointy like that. I just cleaned all the dust out of these grooves. And I made sure all the dust was clean out out of here as well. But these brushes are the culprit here. You can see this one here is war right down. So I ordered new brushes. And this one here is for the Suzuki Iger. And you can see the difference in the brushes. I'll try to hold this right. Give me a second here. See how this one's war down? Look how thick these are compared to these two. So that was definitely an issue. This was not even touching the armature anymore. It has to make contact. So that is my issue. I'm going to put this... These brushes and this assembly here and side here. And put my starter back together. And I'll install it back into the ATV. And we'll turn it over. And it should start no problem. All right. So I put my starter all back together with the new brushes. And as you can see here, it's inside... or it's in the ATV. It's installed. And I put the hot wire back on and the ground wire. So that is all done. One thing I wanted to mention was when you take your... while you're taking your starter apart, if you have a hard time remembering how it goes back together, just take pictures with your cell phone as you're doing it. And I do that a lot of times with a lot of different things. And then if I kind of forget how things go back or I'm not sure, I'll just refer to the pictures on my phone. And that usually guides me right back to how I did it. Okay. Now the moment of truth. I put the seat back on. I'm everything's back to where it was. I'm pretty confident this thing will start. This will be the moment of truth. We're going to fire it up and see if it goes. See if that starter will leave and turn over. Okay. So now we'll give it a try. Turn the fuel on. The ignition's on. Choke is on. Oh! Oh! So there you go. My problem was the starter, the brushes. As I showed you, those brushes were wore right out. So I ordered a set of brushes off of Amazon. And I will leave a link in the description below to show you where I got them. But those were for the Suzuki Iger. And maybe you have a different model. Just go on Amazon. You can find them pretty cheap. And usually it ends up the cheaper than they are at your local dealer. And you'll save a few bucks. You just have to wait a couple days. Sometimes you get a quicker that way anyway. Dealers usually don't have this, your parts in stock. I hope this video helped you with your starter problem on your ATV. If it did, please leave a hit that like button and subscribe. I'll have more videos coming out in the future with the ATV and dirt bikes and that sort of thing. And leave a comment below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you on the next video.