Car Wont Crank/Start anymore, help asap...also CHEAP 4G PARTS

[Phact]

I havnt drove my car for about a week. i got in it today and it has NO power what so ever. so i hooked an emergency jumpstart up and quickly regained power. but not even close to enough needed to start the car. when i goto crank it, it clicks (LOTS of clicks VERY quick)...i have NO IDEA what it could be, i replaced the battery, main relay, what else is there too check??? help ASAP

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been posted many time before to try and clear my garage out and i just get more serious about it. so im posting these again
PLEASE GET RID OF THEM FOR ME

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90-91 civic door panels

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Sega Saturn games and back up thing lol

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some misc interior parts like Steering blinker colum, heater control, and shit

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engine code of the motor with the d15 block and d16a6 head im trying to sell(2 pics)

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i have 2 sport ns-1 tires for sale make me an offer heres 2 pics

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what in the hell is this???

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is this a 4g radiator??? will it work on a 4g? my asking is due to the fact its smaller than my 91 si radiator

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motor mounts, 2 center consoles, and a tailight

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a scanner im trying to sell

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some interior parts(short floor console, rear window panel, and some piece i have no idea about)

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the compaq ipaq im trying to sell

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kenwood tornado 10s in a dual 10 box, not sure if im going to sell these yet given the resale value now

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cd-rw drive for sale

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88-91 civic bumper supports

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my brothers rc car im selling for him, hit me up with an offer

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a 90 dx intake and 91 lx intake seen not intact in this photo

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Engine wireharness??maybe??? but for what??

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sony md mp3 walkman for sale

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91 dx antenna

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stock struts and springs for a 91 civic si

[CZ-R]

We had the same problem with my wife's Corolla. After replacing the starter - twice - I accidentally realized that it was a bad ground.

Try this (with a good battery); run one half of your jumper cables from the negative terminal of the battery to a clean piece of metal on the engine block. If you can get the car started, the problem was most likely a ground.

We ended up running all new ground wires because I couldn't locate the bad one. The part that really sucked was spending $300 (on a starter) to fix a $10 problem...

Good luck!

[Phact]

damn, GROUNDS, the only way you can tell if there bad is if there dirtied correct...and i dont have any jumper cables

[CZ-R]

I'm sure you know someone that has some jumper cables....?

As for them being "dirty"...not neccessarily. I disconnected all the grounds I could find, cleaned them, and it still didn't solve the problem. I ended up just buying new ground wires (3 for $10 @ Wal-Mart), completely replacing 2, and totally relocating 1. That was over a year ago with no problems since...

[Masta]

Originally Posted by CZ-R

We had the same problem with my wife's Corolla. After replacing the starter - twice - I accidentally realized that it was a bad ground.

Try this (with a good battery); run one half of your jumper cables from the negative terminal of the battery to a clean piece of metal on the engine block. If you can get the car started, the problem was most likely a ground.

We ended up running all new ground wires because I couldn't locate the bad one. The part that really sucked was spending $300 (on a starter) to fix a $10 problem...

Good luck!

so the positive goes to a clean piece of metal on the engine block?

[Masta]

how much u want for the scanner?

[CZ-R]

Originally Posted by Masta

so the positive goes to a clean piece of metal on the engine block?

Noooooooooooooo.... Not unless you want to short out your battery!! If you run half the jumper cables from the negative terminal to the engine block & the car starts, then you'll know that the existing wires (that are connected to your negative terminal) are corroded.

[Phact]

well....after a long days work im back....

so check this out, i took out all my visable grounds and replaced them with the grounds from my project hatch and there was no difference. Getting pissed off i figure i have to do something to hold back this anger(the last time i punched my fender which now needs a big dent repair) so i say screw it and started pulling the dx alternator HOPING, JUST HOPING it would be compatible for fitment in my si. i was iffy on this one as well before a month ago when this problem started i took the basically new alt from my si out and had it tested. it tested a ok. well anyway to make the long story short a 91 dx alternator is compatible with that of a 91 si....so now im back and treading up the streets off a quick thought. thanks for getting the process goin

[Phact]

Originally Posted by Masta

how much u want for the scanner?

$$20??

phact

[91civhatch]

How much for the engine harness?

[Phact]

make an offer...

[91civhatch]

15 bucks....

[Masta]

aight, here's what happened with me. i tried doing the jump start thing, and the car started up real quick. Wait, lemme back up....i took a multimeter and tested my battery, it was 5 volts. we hooked up the battery cable and the car went up to 12 volts(put the positive on the battery and the negative on the block. I started up the car and it started up VERY quick. we tested the battery again while the car was running and it was tested at 13-14 volts.i then turn off the car and try to start it back up, it was making the rrr-rrr-rrr noise then it finally started up. So is this a ground problem?


ps, how much will it cost for you to ship the scanner to area code 06340.

[feelsfast]

It seem like you may need a new battery the alt is charging but the battery isn't holding the charge.

[Masta]

it's a new battery