starting problem after motor install - need help asap
 

while i just put my ls/vtec after a rebuild and a few new goodies back in my car and i have all grounds, starter wires, plugs and ---- all hooked up. my ms leaked alot of fluid but i filled it back up, i try to turn it over, and somthin in the dash clicks and the light in the cluster lights up and says brake, idk whats happeneing and idk if thats y its not starting but its never done this before, it wont even turn over, and its a good starter. it dosent bog down or anything like the batery is dead but idk. any fuses blown? anything i could have missed? need help asap, need to get it runing for school tomorow. thanks -blake

Re: starting problem after motor install - need help asap
 

Lots of clicks, but no starter engage sounds like grounds. (Thermostat ground, VC ground, and one of the main grounds on the tranny), also check batt -ground.

When you go key-on, can you hear the pump prime followed by the CEL turning off?

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well ya i can hear the pump and ----, but now my cars freaken, i changed my starter but now when i try to start it the whole dash like flickers and ---- clicks inside and it seems like the bat is dead but the tack was jumping and ---- lol, its hella weird. im too tired to work on it anymore im gona sleep and figure ---- out tomorow. all grounds are hooed up, now when i find out why its acting all weird ill see if the starter works, the new one and check my battery, it lost some acid out of it and i filled it up, but im thinken it might be a bad bat gnd or power wire. ill check it out tomorow. but man this pisses me off 2 weeks since ive driven the thing. i hate this ----. anyone else have thoughts? :-[

Re: starting problem after motor install - need help asap
 

check all the fuses and have u tried to jump start it ??

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I go with that as well, always check out the easy ---- first. My battery was dead, and the car would do something similar to what you're describing. Wouldn't turn over, would click alot, etc. To me, that's a sign of a really, really dead battery. So much so that I was driving around with a fullsize battery and booster cables in my trunk so I could start the car.

Re: starting problem after motor install - need help asap
 

Certainly a good place to start, sometimes the problem is an easy fix.... but you usually find that out after you have destroyed your car in looking for a solution

Re: starting problem after motor install - need help asap
 

change ur bat first then check ur starter. when my starter wire would come loose it wouldn't start. just click. iono bout all that gauge jumping n lights flashign shti tho. good luck

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ya blake i know what u mean its a bitch when ---- happends like this and u have no clue, my z6 turbo did this b4 id hit my brake and the temp gauge and ---- would move all over and it seemed like everything was clicking and backwards, i said ---- it and paid like 5 bucks each for steel braided grounds from summit, best 20 bucks or so ive spent, my grounds after that were, tranny to frame, alt bracket to frame, valve cover to frame, and the battery just runs in the back to were the spare goes, i know it seems like youve prob tried ---- a thousand times but o well keep trying, o hey trick bitch blake i got a new p75 head today lol when r u painting my car? hahah hit me up on msn laters.