Recent content by dc_cucv

This was the issue...a damn alignment tang. always the small stuff....

yea, i had to replace the battery harness since the old one started to smoke and melt and had a bunch of char marks on the cables and the blue fusible link cable was split, so found this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/165995328953 kinda pricey and could have probably made my own cabling, but i...

well, turns out the culprit on the new starter was the damn alignment tang on the main power wire going to the starter. couldn't tell in the picture I took yesterday with it mounted, but when I dropped it today and removed the wires, i noticed a small spot where the alignment tab thing was...

well if i have any that are burned up, I just want to take this time to get them replaced, that's why I asked. i'd rather get everything done in one swoop if i can. I'm about to go drop the starter and verify all the wiring is intact and test the starter again if it by chance the two wires are...

at the 6:40 mark you mentioned that you had the runaway starter and saw the white smoke under the hood like I did and you had three fusible links burn up. which one's burned up? that's probably the issue I'm having here since we had the same problem. and yes I'm aware that a lot of stuff has...

The funny thing is today I talked to a guy from hillbilly wizard about this issue and he wasn't much help so that's why I posted on here. he told me that fusible links are the black cylinders and in order to tell if one is bad you have to cut open the little black plastic cylinder to tell...

so if that wire ends up being the culprit then I basically replace my starter and everything else for no real good reason...fml. so in theory if that wire is shorted out or melted, that would cause the starter to engage since it's receiving the 24 volts from the batteries? and the purple...

any idea off the top of your head? what gauge wire it is? doesn't look as big as the 4 gauge power wire so I'm guessing maybe 12 gauge?

where does the small wire go to from the starter? since I had the same issue with the other starter that used to work before, I tried to turn a truck over with the battery charger connected to the front battery, maybe that wire got fried. i guess that would explain the burnt smell when i...

well not sure how that can be...posted a picture of it in a previous reply and nothing is touching. also, the issue was there with the old starter i removed to install this new one. i installed the old one 2 years ago. could it be something in the little wire perhaps, is there a fusible...

Ok. disconnected purple wire from the starter relay, connected batteries and it started cranking when i connected the ground to the battery.... Issue persists....

so this...

then what should i get? are they something I can source locally from a Napa, Advance or Oreilly's?

so when replacing the fusible links, are these inline fuse holders with the correct amp fuse an acceptable solution?

nothing is touching on the starter.... and the fusible link on the blue frayed wire has a 12 on it.