no starter

[W.P._TurboCars]

First off, I have no pics of what I am talking about... So here goes...

I have no power to my starter due to a wire coming off at the plug-in being cut (One is brown and is hooked to my starter, the other is black and goes ?)
The wire had been cut and I haven't worked on this thing in over 2 months, thus forgetting where the wire would have went to.
I have the top half that goes to the relay and it looks fine, it's just the black wire on the lower half that is unhooked

[rib256]

Someone gave me this link to help fix my problem. I don't know if the picture will help, but here it is anyway.

http://www.****************/forums/sh...t=neutral+wire

If this doesn't help. I am working on a similar problem and have a starter with harness in my driveway and will take some pics for you.

[W.P._TurboCars]

Here is what I've got

[rib256]

Short end or long end? The short end goes to the terminal. I will look to see where the long end goes if you need me to.

[W.P._TurboCars]

Thank You.

Gary

[rib256]

I'm going through a no start thing myself. I know it sucks.

[W.P._TurboCars]

Damn still no worky. Even with the relay bypassd, I get nothing, not even a click from the solenoid. Bout to wired in a push button, wich I really don't want to do that

[88_Pacifica]

check for power in the wire first and work your way back to where you do have power first.. if there is none while attempting to start it, it's not the starter obviously. save yourself a little hassle first and check electrical. The wiring on a dodge is too small and sucks anyway. Start there before hacking it up for a push button solenoid. If it's a stick is the car getting the signal to let it know the clutch is disengaged? Automatic- lockout sensor? There's way more than a possible bad solenoid as a possible culprit. Sucks, I know..

[W.P._TurboCars]

Decided to go to the j/y and just look for another harness (rumored that there are 2 of them) Hopefully neither one is spliced and I will buy them both.

Gary

[W.P._TurboCars]

Ok. I have checked every part of the harness from the ignition switch to the starter itself.

The only part I could think would be messed up in any way is the manual starter harness. Is it just plug N play into the main harness or does it need re-pinning, since the main harness is out of an auto?

Also this is my new harness. I started fresh with a harness out of the 89 van from the J/Y and I had that van trying to start before I pulled it.

Gary

[88jbody]

mine wouldn't start and tuned out that the ground wire bolted to my transmission was broken

[W.P._TurboCars]

OK. But now I am totally lost. I have even replaced the steering column with one out of another car, relays, etc. have all been replaced.

Bye the way, I forgot to mention that this is a re-pin from an 88 Omni dash harness to an 89 T-van engine harness. Only pins I moved were for the wipers (High and low speed which are pins 2 and 4 on the van to pins 45 and 46 on the omni side)

Update:

I pulled the bulkhead back apart and the reverse wire (27 white) and the pin was pushed back out. I snapped it back in. ( I don't know if this would keep it from starting, but anyways...)

Here is my next question.: Should that circuit be drawing current? If not then suggestions on what could be causing the draw? It does it no matter where the key is.

[rib256]

I just discovered the source of my no start. I used the starter subharness out of my 88, and the pins (in the big connecter in the starter harness) did not match the 89 harness. You may want to check that and see.

[W.P._TurboCars]

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Originally Posted by rib256 I just discovered the source of my no start. I used the starter subharness out of my 88, and the pins (in the big connecter in the starter harness) did not match the 89 harness. You may want to check that and see.

Man it works now. I am so exited as I have nevcer even seen this thing run or anything. One more thing, could you post a pick or give me the repin so I know all of it is right?

Thank you so much for figuring it out.
Gary