what i do, (on any older vehicle) is just follow the positive battery terminal from the battery to --->will ALWAYS end up at the starter. If you want to bump starter just to see if it works, then try and find the starter solenoid and see if you can't jump (use heavy gauge) a wire from there to the battery for a quick second. Be sure car is in park/neutral/not in gear and don't stand in front. Start should turn over. This basic principle has worked on many different cars for me when trouble shooting, OR, you could get yer trust INSULATED screwdriver and find the starter's hot wire and use the screwdriver to ground out so it will turnover. I don't use this method anymore however.! Hope this helps at least til someone answers for your specific car.
how do you start the car by touching the starter
There is no starter relay on an Escort. The main battery positive cable goes directly to the starter. A small wire with a clip on it marked s goes to the solenoid. The main battery current to the starter is supplied with this solenoid.
needs either a new ignition switch or a new starter solenoid
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When you hit the starter button the starter relay send power to the starter. the starter solenoid pushes the starter shaft outward and the starter turns. When the solenoid moves the shaft it is connected to the jackshaft which ingages the starter gear on the clutch
If it is like my '86 Samurai there is no starter relay. It uses a starter solenoid on the top of the starter to pass battery to starter motor when the solenoid is activated via the key switch.
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The starter will quit engaging in the motor. Sometime if u bump the key it will work.
Almost all starter solenoids are directly attached to the starter. It is a much smaller "bump" ont he starter with wires normally attached to it.
It should be located on the starter housing itself. It will be the small cylinder or bump on the side of the larger, cylindrical starter housing, and usually is what the wiring is attached to.
There are several things that can cause everything to go dead when you bump the starter. The most common cause will be a loose or corroded ground wire.
If it has a manual transmission - yes. Auto tranny - no.
The starter solenoid is the small bump or cylinder attached to the actual starter motor body. It will be the part with all the wiring connections.
Bump the starter so you can get at them 1 at a time from underneath.
Bypass the switch with a jumper & see if you can bump it with a hot wire.
Using the starter solenoid jump the small middle terminal with the starter terminal at the rear of the solenoid
take of the distributor cap and have someone bump the starter, if the cap does not turn, the timing belt has broke.