Does the positive wire from battery go to solenoid and should be hot all time?
There's a good chance the flywheel ring gear is bashed in, remove the starter then inspect the ring gear as you rotate the crankshaft the engine normally stops in 3 different places so if you find one damaged spot there should be 2 more just like it or close to it you can sometimes dress the teeth up with a file if not the transmission will have to come out. If the ring gear is good and you're confident the charging system and battery are good return the defective starter. I hope this helps, Take care.
How old is the starter and where you get it at?
SOURCE: jeep liberty starter sticking in cold weather
Generally I have seen this happen when water gets into the starter and freezes overnight. When you first try to start it, the starter won't work correctly but heat generated while it's stuck will quickly melt the ice and then it works. Only way I know of to eliminate it is to remove the starter and use grease on all the moving parts that connect the solenoid to the starter Bendix drive. Not sure why, but it seems to happen on some starters but not all, even on identical vehicles. I have corrected the problem on many customers cars by greasing but have left mine alone and actually never had a problem other than the initial "being stuck" in the AM. If your starter is very old, you could replace it but that is up to you.
SOURCE: 2002 jeep liberty starter sometimes just clicks once
ck. the batt voltage and cabels if thats good go 2 the ign switch
SOURCE: jeep liberty 2008
turn on the headlights and try to crank the engine; if the lights dim out while you try to crank, then the starter is ok but the battery is too weak. just turning on the lights does not mean that the battery has enough juice to crank the engine; a starter pulls a lot more than lights. If the headlights do not dim out and it still won't crank, then the starter or a connection to the starter is your problem.
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