So, sorry to make this long but im giving the most detail of the situation i can.
Im doing the battery tray area wiring in my SR and what happens is the following,
When the ignition is turned on, the harness will begin to smoke and the black think wire comming from the SR harness will begin to smoke, only that wire. So imidiatly I turned off the key and disconnected the battery as fast as possible, the insulation on that wire had melted, so i replacd the melted section 10" Long, with new wire, same thing, but this time i held my hand on the wire to see if it was begining to warm up, and shut it off when it did to avoid damage. Origionally I wired up this section wrong, then re did it and the same problem happend!
The motor WILL crank, without a problem and all interior lights work fine and outside lights.
I followed the heavy throttle wiring chart but i found it very confusing
So here is what i have so far, and I have no idea if this is what its supposed to look like,
So Basically im stuck.
Would you guys please give me your idea on whats wrong?
Looks like Scott didn’t know that a car’s starter motor cannot ground it self
through that little tiney carroded grounding strap on the back of the block.
It need’s a seperate min 8 gauge wire from the batt to crank through.
Just ground your block, make sure you sand down the paint on your battery tray before reconnecting the main block to chassis ground. You
shouldn’t run the car off that dinky braided ground strap.
Just ground your block, make sure you sand down the paint on your battery tray before reconnecting the main block to chassis ground. You
shouldn’t run the car off that dinky braided ground strap.[/quote]
It doesn’t need 8ga?
Well it sure won’t crank through that little grounding strap
on the back of the block as Scott found out by trying this.
Grounding your bock is basically what I said by supplying
the Starter Motor it’s own ground wire which needs to be a
min of 8ga to handle the current draw from the starter motor.
