electrical problem after clutch install.

[eder-loco]

So i replaced my clutch, i put everything back the way it was before.
aligned the tranny pretty good. got the bolts holding the tranny, filled it up with new fluids.
both sensors that plugged into the tranny. everything.

so i go to start it, And it started at first. and then would die.
i try again, and it just clicks as if my battery was dead, but then starts and stays running.
but i am getting 12.5 voltage.(when i used to get 13.0-13.4.)
but it just starts goin down little by little.
so i turn it off again and check everything. everything seems fine.
i go to turn it on, and now i just clicks but nothing. wont crank.
so i get my other car and try to jump it, cranks slow but it starts and stays on. with my voltage at 13.0 while the cars are connected with the jumper wires.
i leave it like that for a good 5minutes.
as soon as i dissconect the wires. my voltage start dropping again. little by little. car doesn't die, but my voltage is just low. at this point is at 11.5. i drive the car around the block, everything fine, clutch engages fine. but the most my voltage reads is 12.0. i get home park it. and turn it off. i try to crank it once again. and nothing. just lots of clicking. but no cranking. battery is 1 month old. theres no sound coming from the tranny.

anybody has any idea why this is happening?

btw, this is a 2g fwd. On the starter. it has a positive wire connected to the back, and a ground coming from the negativeside of the battery right?
where is the ground suppost to bolt on to? its the yellow and black wire running from the battery ground very close to the starter.
i might have it on the wrong place, could that be it?

 

[Black95awd]

did you hook the ground back up to the bell housing?

 

[eder-loco]

did you hook the ground back up to the bell housing?

where exacly in the bell housing?
on wich bolt?

Thanks in advance, i really hope thats it. and no. as of right now. its not bolted on to the bell housing, it was bolted on to the firewall. .

 

[turbotalawd]

The ground should be connected to one of the bolts that holds the trans up to the block. Not the bolts that you used to connect the starter to the trans.

 

[boosted spartan]

on a 1g you have a ground that connects to the tranny and to the chassis itself, under the intake pipe or close. also you have a ground on the starter its a little wire that connects to the starter but if its not connected the car wont start, meaning you have that on on your car. then you have one that is also on the wiring harness of the starter and connects on a bolt that holds the tranny to the engine.

 

[eder-loco]

That fixed it, Thanks guys. i hooked up the ground to the bell housing and it worked like a charm.