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Okay, so I've been out there a couple of times this week and fiddled with my car, even had someone else come out, but the results where all the same. Today I went out there, and decided to mess with my Honda Civic that got smashed a year ago. I was always having starting issues on that car since I got it, and decided to take a look at it again after dealing with my BRZ. I found the negative terminal wasn't grounded to a proper chassis ground, then cleaned everything. I noticed there was no ground cable on the starter, only a positive cable and the ignition cable. The ground terminal only had the nut, so I went ahead and hooked up a ground wire, then hooked the battery up. When I pressed the clutch and turned the ignition, the starter made the same whine as my BRZ... I was like "You gotta be joking." I went and disconnected the ground I had put on the the starter, tried again, and the Honda started right up, then died again due to over year old gas in the lines.
After discovering that with the Honda I went and took the negative cable off the starter, then pressed the ignition button... Bam! That starter started cranking, and the motor was trying to start, but I have a wire shorted somewhere that's keeping my baby from starting. So, I am chasing that down at the moment. Ran a resistance test between wires, with the negative cable off the battery, and maybe I didn't perform the test properly, but I checked continuity between the negative terminal and ground, with setting on 20k, and got .01, then when I put the diode on the positive cable I was expecting an infinit reading, but what I got was .27, if I remember correctly, (Test was ran a couple of days ago). So, with that reading that would indicate a short, as well with the starter turning without the ground cable connected. Any idea where I should start my search, and best way about chasing that shorted wire down?
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