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car wont crank, battery, distributor, altenator, starter and fuses and relays are all brand new or good, i turn the key to crank and i get absolutely nothing. car is a 1989 crx si 5 speed. i am seriously lost. i drove the car all day and parked it for a few hours and went back to drive it and this happened. someone please help i need to get this thing running.
 
make sure the ground to the motor is hooked up, and it has a new main relay right
 
make sure the ground to the motor is hooked up, and it has a new main relay right


its grounded and by new main relay you mean what? sorry i can buile turbo systems but bassic stuff boggles me. the hole starter assembly is new.
 
the main relay its on the drive side, but if you car wont turn over at all thats i dont think is the problem, is it even making a clicking noise
 
ok well if all thats working it might be a bad starter ot it might not be grounded right
 
well if i can roll start it what then?
 
what if it wont start on a roll start try.
 
Could be;
oldstarter? tap the starter with a hammer near the solenoid, it could just be sticking.

Starter been removed lately? i see alot of " loose starter wire arcs through terminal and falls off " scenerios becuase the nut has " walked off " the pole.

Bad ignition relay maybe??

Could just be to low of voltage to engage starter solenoid. If you have a volt meter, hold it between the positivee and negitive side of the battery, 11.0 volts up sounds about rigth for a cold but fully charged battery. If it comes up low, hold the voltmeter between the neg of the battery and chassis of thecar, if you get a voltage reading at all, something is either still on or grounding out and killing the battery. Then try to check the voltage between the posi side of the battery and the engine block/head with the ignition key turned on, if you get nothing it could be the engine ground like ahhvtec stated earlier
 
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Could be;
oldstarter? tap the starter with a hammer near the solenoid, it could just be sticking.

Starter been removed lately? i see alot of " loose starter wire arcs through terminal and falls off " scenerios becuase the nut has " walked off " the pole.

Bad ignition relay maybe??

Could just be to low of voltage to engage starter solenoid. If you have a volt meter, hold it between the positivee and negitive side of the battery, 11.0 volts up sounds about rigth for a cold but fully charged battery. If it comes up low, hold the voltmeter between the neg of the battery and chassis of thecar, if you get a voltage reading at all, something is either still on or grounding out and killing the battery. Then try to check the voltage between the posi side of the battery and the engine block/head with the ignition key turned on, if you get nothing it could be the engine ground like ahhvtec stated earlier


its a new starter, everything has been tightened down correctly, someone suggest the switch on the clutch pedal.
 
also the battery should be good its a red top and it still powers everything.
 
"Should be" isn't a definite. You should check it just in case. Did you CHECK the connections to the starter? Or are you assuming the connections are tight? I don't know if you did the work or had someone else do it but every one makes mistakes. The connections could be loose.

The odds of a switch just all of a sudden going out isn't as practical as human error. I'm just trying to get you to check the obvious before you get into fixing something that isn't broken or malfunctioning.
 
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