sorry to say but this is on my malibu,I hope you guys dont mind. and this is part of a battery relocation to the trunk

ok guys I did all the wiring updates, grounded to the frame before the rear tire(good and solid) thats 2 gauge, have a wire going to the body from batt as well. then one'+' going to starter.

I'm thinking its the starter. the car want to turn over, but I let go of the key hesistantly now, and it keeps cranking, I dotn think it will start because its not getting any spark. the only thing that i can think of that caused this is I hoooked up my monster tach? and ran wire to my distributor, were I'm pretty shure it goes. and also I noticed that when I was tigtening the bolt back onto the starter that the stud moved a little, I dont know if I needed to use two wrenches, one to hold the stud there and the other to thread on tight. and I'm pretty shure i have these put on right, there is a smaller wire thats on the stud first, then I think a washer then the '+' cable.


I had to turn to the back of the car and toss off the power cable

I hope I dont need a new starter because of just that

ps. the starter will eventually die down, and obviously stop itself but when its turning over normally it just keeps going. even when I turn the key to off, and also even if I take the key out,

i've never dealt with a starter problem before but is there a selenoid that shuts the power off that might not be DEACTIVATING?

cheers

blake

 

DAMN.. don't you know that shiyet happend to me no more than a week or so ago. I have a rear relocate that was done long time back, but my car would try to start when I turned on the head lights. The fuel pump was not engaging at all, but the starter would not stop running. I had to disconnect the battery to get it to act right.

 

I have to disconnect the battery everytime to get the starter to stop!!!!!

 

I ran into this problem when i did my motor swap. Check the engine block grounds. I left the front one disconnected and i couldnt figure out for the life of me why the starter was staying engaged, then slowly dying. Hope that can help you. -Bob

 

Crap.. well this is happening to me again. I have my hath pull down assembly out currently however. It acts as one of the grounds for the rear end. Do you think this could cause my starter to engage whenever I turn on my headlights?

 

This happend to me on my truck, the solenoid was sticking. It can usually be resolved by tapping the solenoid or replacing it if that doesn't work. I don't know if that is the problem here though. Did you run a wire from the '-' side of the battery to the engine?