ideas ideas ideas everybody :D

[91festival]

finally fixed my initial problem, go to start car, doesn't turn,, im guessing something with my ign switch or ign cylinder, my accesories work, all wires are hooked up properly engine wise, i removed plugs and cranked the crankshaft by hand just fine, not locked up.

[frogman]

Battery charged, checked battery cable connections, fuses, power getting to starter solenoid? When you turn the key, do any of the cluster lights come on in the run or start position?

[91festival]

cluster works fine, battery at 12.9 v, 680 cca, cable terms are freshly cleaned and respliced properly. power to starter solenoid may be the cause, not sure how to properly test that

[ricko1966]

Car in neutral key in run position pull the small lead off the starter short the big lead to the small terminal with a quarter.If the car starts and runs.The starter,solenoid,battery,cables,and ground issues are eliminated.From there check for 12volts at start position at electrical part of switch.12vts in crank at switch you have a break in the wire from switch to solenoid.I start or crank my festys all the time that way when I am working under hood and don't have a helper Ps the clutch switch or neutral safety switch would be my first inspection if I wasn't getting 12v from switch to solenoid

[91festival]

I work all day today. Ill have to try tomorrow. Ill let you know

[Movin]

Make sure it is out of gear.

[91festival]

car neutral, key in run, starter sparked, attempted to turn and nothing, got like half a crank of a piston, alsmot as if the battery was almost dead kind of turn. massive ass sparks though, that was fun in the rain... solenoid possibly bad?

[Team Lightning]

Starter bad?

[91festival]

idk, when i tested it at auto zone it passed, the drive felt like it maybe wasnt holding its pressure at the end of the shaft, but other than that, it passed

[harpon]

What about that fuel delivery cut-off switch on the back panel behind the drivers seat?

[91festival]

perfectly fine, ive gutted my car though, its pretty much 2 seats and an engine atm, ive even purposuly tried to pop that inertia switch to reset it and nothing still.

[ricko1966]

If you shorted between the 2 big lugs you will get sparks if you short large lug to solenoid body you will get sparks.If you got big sparks from little male terminal to large battery lug sounds like a shorted solenoid but that defiantly should have been caught when starter was tested.short big lug to big lug that bypasses the solenoid if starter spins then your solenoid is not working.Can you turn the engine over by hand?

[SoCalZ28]

Reading through posts it seems like you would have checked these, but I didn't see the 3 main fuseable links under the hood mentioned. Just throwing that out there if it's still down.

[91festival]

Main fuse links under hood are fresh and clean no breaks in the wires. And i went the positive to negative of the starter. Large lug to large as you said. And yes ive got ontop of that crankshaft and cranked it to make sure the engine wasnt locked up moved freely. (Removed sparkplugs before tryong to crank it so itd be easier.) anyone know a way of removing starter without dropping the oil on the b3 block haha..