does your ohm meter look like this one? trying to visualize what you have it set on....this could help LynnEdwards help you set your meter where it needs to be.

 

i went and bought a better quallity meter and it reads 12.60 at the battery when i try to start it it drops to 7.50-8.00 with cables and 5.30 without

and at the starter it reads 4.32 when you try to start it without jumper cables and 8.23 with jumper cables

and i did replace the starter with a brand new one and it made no difference

 

If i got those readings i would buy a new batt. Dont charge the new batt with your 64amp charger. a 2 amp charger is plenty on that size batt, don't fry the new one.

 

Since your just starting at using a meter I'd double check those readings just to be sure you get the same results.

If you really are dragging down the battery to 5.3 volts (from 12.6 volts unloaded), you were measuring right on the battery +/-terminals, then the battery is bad, the starter is bad, or the engine is frozen.

To drag a good fully charged battery down to 5.3 volts would take about 100 amps of current draw. The wires going to your starter would get hot. The starter would get hot. The most likely scenario is that your battery is bad (as aircube already noted).

The part that doesn't make sense is that when you jump the quad battery to your car or truck battery it doesn't get much better. Are you really jumping your quad to a car or truck battery, and are you using real automotive style jumper cables that can pass hundreds of amps of current? Or are you doing something like just hooking the quad to a battery charger? You need to jump the battery to your car/truck using real jumper cables.

And to second aircube (and earlier armagh), never hook your little quad battery up to a charger that charges at more than 2 amps.

 

i concur about the jumper cables. don't get a cheap set, they hardly work. i mean, really, what if you needed them for your vehicle? i spent 75.00 on mine 20 yrs ago. they're good and still work great. cheap sets suck.........you get what you pay for though..quality, always go with quality.

 

i did it again and got the same readings

i used a high quality pair of jumper cables is there a easy way to tell if the motor locked up with out taking it all apart?

 

with the jumper cables hooked to my car it reads 13.26 with the motor off on the battery side and the other end of the jumper cables

 

13.26 V and it drops to 5.3V while you crank it while attached to your car?

 

So at 13.26 V direclty from a working in-service car battery does it spin quickly or do you still get V drop?

Because if you hooked a 64 amp charger up to a batt of this size it is very likley fried. It will likely have bad cells. I have a friend that charged his fishfinder batt at the 12amp setting twice and fried it. 12 amps would have charged it in 1/2 hour, he left it on for about 12 hours

 

it still dropped with car battery