weird starting problem #2

[invisableflames]

well i have a weird starting problem with my mustang. sometimes... not all the time my car will just not turn over. i will just sound sick, the seatbelt buzzer sounds funny, the strat doesnt turn just clicks a bunch of time and then nothing. the lights will turn on, as will the radio. if i play with the key and the shifter, after some tim,e the car will start normal.

is their a some kind of selector switch that may be going wrong in the shifter, or some kind of key switch

this is a occuring on 82 mustang.

[88Nightmare]

my quick guess is, if its auto, your park/neutral safety switch is fouled out.

[quietflow]

Bad battery connection, check the terminals to see if they are clean, or loose. Try that if you still have a problem the battery could be bad even though it has enough juice to power the radio. Do the lights dim when you try to crank it?

[invisableflames]

yes the headlights always dim, even before the problem occured. then if i would step on it a bring it to like 1k they would brighten, along with the heater, it would blow harder.

[quietflow]

Sounds like a bad battery to me!

[88Nightmare]

yeah more then likely. By saying if you play with the shifter it would start, I thought it was something related to a safety switch, but quietflow seems to have hit the nail on the head.