My snake wouldn't start one morning as I was leaving for work, starter would just click. 1st thought was battery, but it wouldn't crank with booster box on it. 2nd thought was starter. Changed starter--still no start. Replaced negative cable(looked bad), still no start. Did a search on here and found out someone else had same problem and replacing parts, still had no start. It turned out to be a bad ground on the motor. Moved the ground from near oil filter to a stud on the front of the motor and it fired right up. Everything ok now, but take it from me, check your ground before you start thowing parts on the car.
Battery ground had me stumped...
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I've said that a thousand times. I spent two days on the garage floor removing & replacing, and reinstalling the starter on my old '95.
A good way to nail down a bad ground (starter related), is to connect one side of a set of jumper cables to the battery ground terminal - and the other end to a different ground point on the engine, then try to start it!:beer:
Bling!
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glad to hear you fixed it...
Lol I put up with that problem for weeks before I figured it out.
Dano---op here. When I did a search, I think it was one of your old posts that lead me to find the bad ground using jumper cables to ground battery. If it was you, thanks.
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