No start, Need electrical guru help Options

[DickSteinkamp]

1976. V8 Conversion, but the starter wiring is (near) stock.

It did this once in the past, and has done it again. Turn the key to the start position, hear a relay click under the dash, but the starter doesn't engage and spin. If I jump the big cable at the starter to the terminal on the solenoid that the brown wire is connected to, the starter spins and starts the car.

The last time it healed itself after the car sat for a couple of hours. It hasn't been that long now, but I need to find what the problem is and fix it.

I have jumpered around the original seat belt interconnect.

Ideas?

(BTW, electricity is magic to me so keep it simple (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

[ClayPerrine]

Have you checked under the passenger seat to see if the seat belt interlock is still hooked up? They are notorious about causing no start problems.

To check:

1. Remove the passenger seat.
2. Look at the relays in the electrical connections.
3. Remove the fat yellow wire, and the fat yellow with a red tracer wire.
4. Splice them together.



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I actually stripped all of that junk out of the harness in Frody. He doesn't have starting issues any more.

[DickSteinkamp]

Have you checked under the passenger seat to see if the seat belt interlock is still hooked up? They are notorious about causing no start problems.

To check:

1. Remove the passenger seat.
2. Look at the relays in the electrical connections.
3. Remove the fat yellow wire, and the fat yellow with a red tracer wire.
4. Splice them together.



(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads/post-104-1418650535.jpg)


I actually stripped all of that junk out of the harness in Frody. He doesn't have starting issues any more.

I also removed all that junk including the brackets that mounted it and spliced the yellow and yellow/red wires as part of the conversion.

I also Removed seat belt buzzer and key in buzzer systems and the two piece speedo cable and apparatus that powered the EGR/cat reminder lights.