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Old 08-04-2005, 11:56 AM
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How many wires did you attach to your starter? make sure you attached not only the battery cable but also the fuseable links (see below for description).

It could be alot of different things, but the way you descired it I would have to assume you jumped it from a running vehicle and had both the positive and negative cables hooked to the battery, am I right?

I would check a few things, check all of the fuses with an ohm meter and the key off (easiest way to check fuses, leave them in the fuse box and touch the two metal ends on the fuse with the meter ends, if your meter doesn't go up its a bad fuse) check them all, but I don't think this is your problem.

My guess would be that because you had a car running and then got your car running, you then had 2 alternators pushing current thru a single system and it burnt up your fuseable links. Your fuseable links are the other wires (other then the positive power cable) that attach to your starter (should be like 4 of them). A fuseable link is a wire that has a smaller diameter wire for a short length that acts like the metal in a fuse, if you pull or push too much juice thru them the smaller wire gets hot and burns up, this keeps you from having to check all over the wire harness to find a burnt spot.

If its neither of these two next I would suspect a bad computer.
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