i just finished puttin together a mini-me and now when we went to start it the starter started sparking and the negative battery terminal started sparking anyone know what the problem might be??? any help would be appreciated

 

Can anyone help me please?

 

come on somebody help me, i really wanna get the car started i need it ready for the marcus dairy meet in a week and i want it started

 

The grounds are either not connecting good, or it's grounding out somewhere on the car.

 

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yup that happened to me too, check your GROUNDS. One for the battery and one for the Transmission Case!

 

Thanks for the help guys, i'm gonna check all the grounds tomorrow and hopefully i get it started

 

i checked all of the wires and everything and i don't see any metal on metal or anything, can it be anything else? i really want to get my car started but i dont know whats goin on does anyone have any idea of something else that might be causing it? should i try changing the starter? i want my car ready by at least aug. 13th for honda day but i would like to have it for the next honda-tech meet here on aug. 6th


Modified by 95RedCoupe at 12:46 PM 7/30/2005

 

Can anyone help me please?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 95RedCoupe &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i checked all of the wires and everything and i don't see any metal on metal or anything, can it be anything else? i really want to get my car started but i dont know whats goin on does anyone have any idea of something else that might be causing it? should i try changing the starter? i want my car ready by at least aug. 13th for honda day but i would like to have it for the next honda-tech meet here on aug. 6th


Modified by 95RedCoupe at 12:46 PM 7/30/2005</TD></TR></TABLE>

well u need to ground the battery. and u need to ground the tranny case. if u dont have any ground, obviously the car wont start.....

 

ohh i get what your sayin thanks for the help

 

You have a short to ground somewhere. Check all your grounds and if it keeps doing the same thing then something in the starter is grounding out to the case and you will need to find a new one. This is caused by overtightening of the bolt on the starter itself and it makes the metal conductor inside the starter ground to itself. I know from experience ( )

 

im gonna check that too then thanks

 

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anytime, keep us posted

 

you were right the starter was on too tight but i had a couple friends comeover and take a look too and check everything and one of them noticed that i didnt have the little key that goes into the crankshaft pulley so we found that and put that back in and we finally got it started thanks for all the help guys

 

^^ no problem, will you be at the Marcus Dairy meet?