engine swap, now starter wont crank

[Marsh]

Hello. I put a 6 bolt into a 97 gsx, we are ready to try it, but the dang starter wont even crank. It works, cause i had it rebuilt and even took it off last night and tested and works fine. Connects are great with a new battery. We had the pos/neg wrong on starter, and took it off to test and put it back on corect way. Anyone give some light on why it wont engage? The field coil wire is on the negative now. Also, when i hook up the battery, a constant chime noise comes from the stero or something , but goes off when i push clutch in. Only thing i can really guess is its disengaging the starter for some reason, vfaq said it will on 95-96 but im puzzled. Any light would be awesome.

Jake

 

[Marsh]

any ideas? i took a bullet for this car ###

 

[bryanwheat]

so you hooked up the negative and posative on the starter backwards, you probably fried something, maybe an ignition switch or something. Hooking battery's up backwards can mess some things up, also being that you hooked the positive to the ground, when you hooked the battey up, it just grounded, you most likely popes a fuse somewhere. Do some checking. IT is really to diagnose something like this that isn't a common problem in a car that was messed up due to installation error. jump the cylinoid on the started to make sure that it still works alright.

 

[94Jettameowpsst]

It sounds like you just have a bad ground somewhere.......if they're not super tight, the car wont start......trust me

 

[TargeT]

reverse powering your car is bad, hopefuly the worst you did was blow a (major) fuse that's in enginebay fusebox, its labled engine or ignition i belive.

I've blown this one myself about, oh 4 or 5 times due to a unsecured battery that rocked into my UIC pipe on hard turns (haha.. the car would just DIE)

check for that fuse (big blocky one, you'll have to unscrew it to get it out, but you should be able to see that its blown just by looking at the top of it)

let us know if that's not your problem.