My car wont crank.

[JohnD1079]

OK my h22 tucked n swapped cb7 does not want to crank. When i turn the key to III, it dosent do anything. No clicking like it would if the battery is bad. The starter dosent crank.

At first i thought it was grounds, becasue before sometime it would, sometimes it wouldnt crank. Whenever it didnt, i would go move around the ground wires or something related to grounds and it would start. But today i added another ground from the throttle body to my strut bar. and still nothing has changed. I checked pretty much all my engine grounds. I have Thermostat, Valve cover, Tranny -> Body, Altornator -> Body, and Throttle Body -> Strut Bar. I am also using thick 00 Guage wires fro my battery relocation and everything there is secure.

I dont think its the main relay because its not hot out. If I push start it, it starts up fine. Easy no problem, dosent even have to be going that fast to start. The other day i was at a gas station and it wouldnt start, so i took off the tranny ground bracket and i cleaned it off, (there was some sort of silvery slime from the paint on there), and it started right up the next couple of times.

[customchord]

Have you checked for a faulty starter?

[JohnD1079]

No i havent becasue when it did crank, there where no crazy noises, actually really quiet. Plus when i put it on less than 2 months ago, i took it to pepboys to test it, and it ran perfectly and quiet. They guy thought it was brand new (other than the fact that it was painted).

I will jump it with a wire and see what happens though.

[customchord]

Take a multi meter and see if it getting voltage.

[bruno8747]

Try the ignition switch. Also hook up a multi meter to the small terminal on the starter. It shoud be a 12 gauge wire on the starter solenoid and then have someone crank the engine. When its being cranked you should have 12v at that wire. If you dont then there is a problem with the ignition switch.

[92bently]

yeh i would start right at the source...ignition switch, make sure u have power going in a commin out of it, then go from there...easiest way to narrow it down

[JohnD1079]

Dammit, it was the starter.

[JohnD1079]

I still dont understand why the starter either worked flawlessly or didnt at all.

And i dont get why when i messed with the grounds it would start after a couple of tries. Could've been a fluke, but it happened a bunch of times, so, yeah...