Engine doesn't start, only clicks...

[95Convert]

Spoke to soon. No sooner did it a couple of days, than it's back to doing the clicking thing. I have checked all leads, grounds, solenoid, battery, starter and everything else I can think of and have come up with nothing. The only thing I can think of is some sort of grounding is going on with the wiring harness in the dash, but don't have any idea where to start looking. This is getting ridiculous.

[Rev]

Did you try jumping the connection at the starter relay?

Rev

[95Convert]

Originally posted by Rev
Did you try jumping the connection at the starter relay?

Rev

Yes. The solenoid is not the issue. I have checked every component in the starting system, with a load, without a load, stand alone, on the car, off the car, etc. and everything is in good working order. As a last ditch effort, I am going to move the battery back to the front of the car and see if it makes any difference.

[Rev]

I had missed the fact that the battery was in the rear. What I had to do to get good starting performance with the battery in the trunk was to run a #2 gauge ground cable directly from the ground terminal of the battery to the bolt holding the starter motor in place. I could not get good performance from a chassis gound from the battery and a chassis ground to the engine block. This could be your problem. My experience with the chassis ground was just slow cranking, especially when hot. I do have ground connections from the engine block to the chassis so that everything else will still work off of a chassis ground.

Rev

[95Convert]

Yep, that was it. Just for the heck of it, I ran a 2AWG wire from the negative post on the battery and grounded it to the engine. No more problem. I guess I will just run both the neg and pas cables to the rear. Thanks for the input.