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Old 01-13-2007, 02:09 AM   #16
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Re: 96 Grand Am 3.1 L (Won't Start)

Well on the fusable links i believe my car has them but there not actually fuses there where the wire gets smaller(thinner) so that they will just break and one of those was almost fryed but we fixed that wire but that's not what was wrong. We actually found the problem tonight my dad finally got pissed and grabed the battery cable that goes down to the starter and ripped it out and we found a 3rd wire that wasn't on the starter it was hidden really good because I looked for hours for more wires thinking early on that we may have missed a wire that we didnt hook up. So apparently there is 3 wires on top(bigger bolt) and 1 wire on the bottom(small bolt). But ohh well we hooked it up and the car started right up. I would just like to thank everyone for there info and helpful tips.

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Old 01-13-2007, 02:13 AM   #17
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Re: 96 Grand Am 3.1 L (Won't Start)

glad to hear you got it fixed ... just to bad you spent so much time when it was a simply a wire not connected.
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Old 01-13-2007, 02:15 AM   #18
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Re: 96 Grand Am 3.1 L (Won't Start)

Well on the fusable links i believe my car has them but there not actually fuses there where the wire gets smaller(thinner) so that they will just break and one of those was almost fryed but we fixed that wire but that's not what was wrong. We actually found the problem tonight my dad finally got pissed and grabed the battery cable that goes down to the starter and ripped it out and we found a 3rd wire that wasn't on the starter it was hidden really good because I looked for hours for more wires thinking early on that we may have missed a wire that we didnt hook up. So apparently there is 3 wires on top(bigger bolt) and 1 wire on the bottom(small bolt). But ohh well we hooked it up and the car started right up. I would just like to thank everyone for there info and helpful tips.

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Old 01-13-2007, 10:49 AM   #19
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Re: 96 Grand Am 3.1 L (Won't Start)

I thought thier should be more then the 3 wires, but you said you only removed 3.

Glad you got it fixed !

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