ok here it is any help would be great i have a 89 camaro rs with a 305 in it so to the point

last month when i would put the key in the carand turn it to where the elevtronics and engine fans came on everything would come as soon as i turned the key to start the engine it would click and everything wnt off no power ad it would not work then out of no where i a few hours it would hav reset itself and the samething would happen so icheck battery connection and they were fine so ireplaced the starter sylnoidand the car started then today i go outto start the car to leave and turn the key for all the electronics and fan etc to come on an they do turn the key to start the engine and it dos nothing no sounds nothng but i the electrnics stay on the fans still runs my clock didnt reset itself but i willnot start so i check my connection everything looks good i cant test powerbut i kno i have it case all my lihts work fan works so im completly lost any advise would be great i will try anything

thanks Joe

 

Sounds like it might be a VATS problem, do a search you will find alot of information on it.

 

THANKS I WILL SEARCH CAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE VATS IS BUT I WILL LOOK THANKS

 

VATS = Vehicle Anti Theft System

 

ok so i check the resis on the key pellet and it omes out 887 so i disconnect the 2 white cables going to the vats mod and put the key in and turn it and test the vats cables and 887 coming to the vats so my vats system is good and while trying all this it seemed like i was loosing power y dome light got dimmer and dimmer so i go and check the battery off 12.36 check with the keys turned 12.36 so my battery is good i just replaced the pos cable and the started cylenoid so i decided to check it so i start to disconnect the neg and i see my dome light go bright again so i tighten and there it goes it starts right up so i replace it and the car works great so just a bad cable so when i checked the cables to begin with it seemed to be good but it is rusted on the connection it self it seemed to be a good connection but it not so everythings good thanks jason1313 for your input

 

Glad to hear you got it figured out!

 

Glad you found the bad cable connection. That's a 100% cause of the "everything died when I tried starting" problem.
The bad connection can be either between the battery post and the cable terminal or even between the terminal and cable. Also, one more place that a bad connection could occur at is the starter where the positive cable attaches to the post and small orange wires branch off.

Hope this helps others when they try to search.

Lou