I've gone against my decision to sell my 84 Z28 and figured I'd give it another chance. I basically felt that I didn't give the car a chance before I'd sell it. As far as I know, the car needs a battery and starter.

Granted, I'm not 100% sure on either. I tried jumping the car via a jump unit, no luck. From what I've learned through mechanics thus far, if the car doesn't turn over it's the starter. The voltmeter in the dash says the battery is dead.

I've looked around online and saw starters for my car going around $80, and at least the same for a car battery. I'm on a budget of $300 to get it to actually start. With $300, could I get the starter replaced (new), a new battery and new battery cables?

My other question was should I replace the battery cables too? Thanks in advance guys.

 

A starter for that car is about $30, MAYBE.

A batt is about $75-80; sounds like you need one of those.

I'd get a batt first. Check the cables, make sure the ends are in good shape, if not replace them. Save the starter for last, it probably doesn't need it.

Batteries are like tires and gasoline. They are CONSUMABLES, not "parts" or "investments". Count on having to buy one every now and them for as long as you own cars. Kind of just comes with the territory. So just bop on down to Sears or something, pick up a 75 series batt, slap it in there, and see what you get. And fill it up with gas too.

 

Thanks! Guess I'll just have to wait for this snow storm to blow over...

 

Why??

Just get out there and enjoy it!

 

Already have a nice dent in the back of my Stang from some jackass that was tailgating during the last storm >.<

 

Update;

Got the shitty tire replaced, aka no more donut tire. After that, brought the battery to AZ for a charge. Battery was holding a charge up to like 2.6 so I ended up replacing it. They only had a side post in the right size, so I bought it with the adapters. I couldn't get the cords onto the posts 100% but the car was turning over. I could smell the gas so I laid off turning it on. Tomorrow I'm going to return the battery and grab a top post.

Probably will use some coke on the battery cables before I put the new one on. Woo!

 

Third gens use side-post batteries, thats probably why its what you had to get. Seems like someone swapped the battery cable ends out. It wouldn't be a bad idea to replace the cables at this point with that being the case.

 

I was told that the reason my Camaro calls for a side post is because the top posts are dangerously close to grounding on the hood. If that's true or not that's what I was told by a guy that worked for Interstate batteries.