battery hookup

[JFLEMING95]

I have my battery hooked up like this , http://m1172.photobucket.com/albumvi...n.jpg.html?o=0 and my car's lights will cut on and everything but the car won't crank. Also sorry about it being the URL and not the image I'm on my phone and its limiting me. But anyway is this the right way too hook it up or am I missing something?

[deevergote]

Check your ground connections.

[SPLCB7]

Is your starter trying to work? Dose it make a click noise? Do your lights stay on after you crank it or do they turn off when you try to crank it?

[JFLEMING95]

Is your starter trying to work? Dose it make a click noise? Do your lights stay on after you crank it or do they turn off when you try to crank it?

Everything cuts off when I try to crank it

Check your ground connections.

? That's when its on metal right ?

[SPLCB7]

Its your connection's like deevergote said..... I'd take them apart clean them and put die electric grease on all your connections. It should start after that.....

[flatrex]

See on your red (positive) terminal it looks like you just have the cable smashed in there, well that's wrong. If it does start most likely it will shake loose and fall off. What you need to do is make sure about 3/4 of an inch of wire is exposed, then loosen the 2 10mm bolts on the positive terminal. Slide the exposed wire into the slot where you loosened the 10mm bolts then retighten them. Make sure the terminal is removed from the battery before you do this

[JBradley500]

yeah take the terminals apart, clean them up with a wire brush or something and put them back together and make sure they aren't loose. i see loose and dirty battery connections do that all of the time.

[alan lx]

If your lights are bright, then when you hit the starter it just clicks and the lights go out, is usually the ground. However, if it is turning very slow and there is no clicking. It could be a sign your starter is going bad. Mine recently done this. At first it really seemed like a ground like Deev said. And that is usually the problem. Honda starters usually do not go bad. But after 20 years it is possible.

[JFLEMING95]

Thanks all of you. It was the ground it works fine.now