So today is snowed about 16 inches here and i went to someones house .5 miles away. coming back my car got stick 4 times. some time after the 2 or 3rd time their was this clicking noise. it would click faster the higher the rpm's. then about 2 hours after i started i got to my drive way and was half way into the garage and it died. it wont start agian. i know its not the battery. when i turn the key it kinda but not really trys to turn over but it dosent. my thoughts are its something with the starter but i dont know. it might have something to do with the snow jaming something under the car, it was way past the bumper deep. its a 1998 v6 5 speed btw.

 

Have you looked inside the engine compartment? Being that you used your car as a snow plow the engine compartment probably got packed with snow. As the engine heat melted the snow all the electrical stuff got wet.

 

Hopefully, that ticking was not a lifter coming apart. What was the oil pressure when you were hearing the ticking noise?

 

their was no snow in the engine compartment. and for the oil pressure i dont know, i didnt notice any thing out of the ordarny. would it hurt it to try starting and tinkering with it?

 

Check all of your grounds locations and make sure they are clean and tight as well as the positive cable connection on the battery and starter. Bump it again to see if it turns over normally. If it doesn't, I would put a socket and ratchet on the front crank pulley to see if I could rotate the engine by hand just to make sure nothing is catching internally.

 

is the battery fully charged? sounds like the battery went dead.

 

How hard would I have to push to turn the engine? I tried with a ratchet and I could not move it.

 

I looked at the starter and it all most looked like a piece of metal or something jamming a gear in the back of the starter. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
edit: that thing i was talking was not anything. all the connections are good and still nothing

 

When you got the car stuck, were you revving the pi**...oops, I mean the pee-pee out of the engine to get it "unstuck"?

 

well yes and no. while it was stuck i didnt spin the tires for more than like 3 seconds. But once i got it going it was at like 3-4 down a block, then i turned and got stuck. could a engine seize while running? i tryed turning the crank and i couldnt.