New Car New Issue

[SilverShadow87]

a local cutlass for sale... 88 supreme classic, almost fully loaded, 200r4 trans, i THINK it may have the f41 suspension kit... no posi though 🙁 anywho, the owner says its been having issues with the battery/starter. so, he took the starter out and had it checked out, the people he took it to say that its fine.. so he brought it back to the car and its been sitting for a couple months without the starter in it. i put it back in and wired it back up, and hooked up a BRAND new battery, and it still has no current going through the vehicle... what could the issue be?

 

[zuma83]

fuseable link. the 2 pink wires/red wires

 

[81Regal]

Likely a fuseable link at the starter. Or the owner forgot to hook one of the wires up going to the starter.

 

[SilverShadow87]

i dunno what happened to those wires... but its one single fat wire coming from the battery to the starter. can i get the pink ones aftermarket?

 

[zuma83]

wire frome battey goes to starter then I wire with 2 fuseable links that go across the fire wall. I thinks thers a purple wire 2 ?

 

[81Regal]

There is a bundle of wires that goes across the back of the engine, hopefully the missing wires are put up and not cut out.

 

[LSCustoms]

a local cutlass for sale... 88 supreme classic, almost fully loaded, 200r4 trans, i THINK it may have the f41 suspension kit... no posi though 🙁 anywho, the owner says its been having issues with the battery/starter. so, he took the starter out and had it checked out, the people he took it to say that its fine.. so he brought it back to the car and its been sitting for a couple months without the starter in it. i put it back in and wired it back up, and hooked up a BRAND new battery, and it still has no current going through the vehicle... what could the issue be?

what do you mean by no current going through the vehicle?

do the lights work?
does the ignition switch power anything in the vehicle at all?
as others stated check the main power wire going into the cab of the car, should be (factory) two fusable links coming off the starter. check all the fuses in the fuse block, a power probe is best for this stuff (or a good test light, that is computer safe).. if all he did was disc the starter and take it out, then make sure everything down there is connected properly...

 

[454muscle]

Either battery ground strap, or engine-to-firewall ground strap. I know, because I had the same problem with the new 4door Bu. Without the ground strap, she won't even turn over.

 

[pontiacgp]

here's the diagram for your starter, without the two wires hooked up with the battery cable you won't have any power going to your fuse box or headlite switch. The purple wire is your ignition wire to the solenoid. There is a harness that comes from the fuse box over the back of the engine and you should find the wires in that harness. The wire for your electric choke comes from that harness as well

 

[zuma83]

here's the diagram for your starter, without the two wires hooked up with the battery cable you won't have any power going to your fuse box or headlite switch. The purple wire is your ignition wire to the solenoid. There is a harness that comes from the fuse box over the back of the engine and you should find the wires in that harness. The wire for your electric choke comes from that harness as well

wish I had this when I was doing mine . very nice