Sounds like a loose wire somewhere to me or a bad connection. Also, I don't know where your starter is but if exhaust is close and you live somewhere it is real hot, sometimes heat soak will stop a starter and start when the engine cools, but on this car this is probably not the problem since you probably do not have headers that go past the celenoid to the starter. I have also had ignition problems on Fords that when it got hot it would not work. Ford did not want to pay a couple extra parts for a better part.

 

lol, i live nowhere hear the heat.... right now it is literly below zero.... our school is canceled tomorrow because its so cold. its suposed to be like -40 tomorrow, but i dont believe that... i dont think it was a connection to the battary because i checked those and cleaned, and tightened them when it was there and it didnt work still... tried jumpin it when it was there, but that didnt work either.... idk what was going on, it pissed me off though, cuz i worked on it for hours in the freekin 0 degree weather. lol

 

I'm not going back to read the whole post, but if it is a stick, sometimes there is a sensor on the clutch pedal that goes out, that is the safety so the clutch is pushed in before it will start.

 

remove the clutch switch so that you can turn the car on without the clutch.

 

DONT HAVE STICK, no clutch sensor. its an auto....

 

maybe a crappy connection at the ignition or something. Was it trying to turn over before. And just cuz the lights can come on doesnt mean its not the battery, it still could have enough to run lights but not the car.

 

no, it didnt even try to turn over. it just clicked, but i never charged it and after i pushed it home, it fired right up... so it couldnt be battary.

 

gotta just be a loose connection somewhere

 

idk, ive never had the problem since... ive started it many times since its happened and it hasnt happened again... idk, maybe it was a spur of the moment or something..

 

i had a similiar thing happen with my mr2, one day my horn kept going off and the only way it would shut off is if the lights were on . So i unplugged the battery. The next day i plugged it back in and it has never done it again. Just a quirk i guess