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HONDASLAYER · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: I need help with a BAD problem

i got a big problem. so my starter was going out in my 83 z28 so i bought a new one and put it in today but after i reconnected the battery my car is getting absolutly no power. no lights, no nothing. we checked all the cables and grounds, checked all the fuses in the box and nothing was disconnectd or blown. i think it might be the main fuse or braker but i can't find it anywhere not even in the book. I had to leave it at a buddies house cause i had to go cause i was getting so pissed off at everything and everyone. please. i have no idea what to do.

Bashy Bashy

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2328

There are a couple wires about 10 guage that go on the starter with the positive cable, make sure you hooked those up. They have big eyes on the ends, to fit over the stud. Powers the whole car.

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject:

91RSVert · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject:

the older cars arent like the new one with main braker boxes, then another mini fuse box.

You have a small likely purple wire which is the "start".

You have the big red from the battery, and likely some other orange and/or red wires that go on that same terminal. They might also have whats called inline fuseable links. Which is basically a fuse that you cant replace.

Now, when I re-wired my car. I didnt put some of the wires back on the right terminal and the car didnt work. I forget what its problems where though Confused

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:47 pm Post subject:

I don't get it 5min before we swaped the starters it started and run fine but 35min later i got nothing.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

Check what I mentioned in the PM. Rodney got it though, you're supposed to have Fusible Links that connect at the big terminal on the starter.

If yours didn't have em, and they spliced them into the heavy wire, you got a problem.

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject:

ok i'll double check it tomarrow. thanks guys.....

GREG DAVIDSON · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:40 pm Post subject:

i dont know how far you dropped your engine back but atleast on mine there is a major ground wire on the back of the pass side head i forgot to hook it up and i had no power from that also maybe you stressed them and they came loose but its another idea

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject:

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all the help. It seems i didn't see the second cable for the big terminal so i didn't hook it up. I didn't even remember seeing it. but it was there, hanging down behind the starter where i couldn't see it. Plus when i took my battery to be tested me guy at schucks hooked it up and it read " Untestable source: replace battery" so that was another thing but It's all good now. And i'm good to party tonight.
Rock on!

Al Hasse · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject:

Had a similar situation when replacing the motor in my V6. With the car on the lift, as I was hooking up the starter, the main battery cable slipped off as I was reaching to get the fusible links. Well, I didn't notice that the cable was off and continued on. When time came to check electrical, nothing worked. I took me another day or so to figure it out as I was hooking the exhaust back up and saw sparks coming from the ring terminal on the battery cable as it contacted any metal around it.