Starter not properly grounded?

[STORTZ77]

i relocated my battery and i went to start my car and it will turn over and everything but wont start. could the starter not be grounded properly? or if you any other reasons please help.

 

[EclipticalGS]

If you just extended the Battery (+) wire to the rear, and found a ground in the trunk for your battery (-), you may have problems. I feel it's needed to at least run one 2Ga Positive to the trunk, and one 2Ga Negative to the trunk also.

Your positive will now be hooked up to your fuse box wires/ starter wire via Distribution block, and your ground will mount in the same spot in the engine bay, and run to the rear.

To answer your question, if your engine "turns" over like normal, but doesn't start, your starter is fine.

P.S. Check maybe the 20A Engine fuse in the fusebox in the engine bay also. It'll be a blue weird looking fuse.

 

[knochgoon24]

Since you moved the battery, I'd double check that you are giving power to everything that needs power.

 

[STORTZ77]

im thinking it has something to do with my grounding.
i just was wanting to know if it was still possible for it to turn over and it just not be grounded properly. not the ground from the battery. but from the fuse box

 

[EclipticalGS]

Yeah the simplest relocation involves,

1. Take off your (+) battery terminal and put the (4) white wires, and (1) starter wire into one side of a Power Distribution block.

2. Then off the other side of the Distribution block, run a 2Ga power wire to the trunk and battery (+) terminal.

3. Use another 2Ga wire and bolt it into your factory battery ground in the engine bay, and run that to the trunk and battery (-) terminal.

4. Within 18" of your battery (+) terminal, you must place a 150A circuit breaker within the Power wire...

**This just becomes and extension of existing wires if done this way^^**

If, you skipped step 3, and just grounded your battery in your trunk, your car may or may not run right.
If you skipped step 4, you take the chance on your power wire catching fire if it shorts anywhere.

Lastly, Go out and check you Engine fuse, it's a 20A. Its simple just go check it and report back.

im thinking it has something to do with my grounding.
i just was wanting to know if it was still possible for it to turn over and it just not be grounded properly. not the ground from the battery. but from the fuse box

I dont think you understand how it works. The Starter gets its ground from the block. The fuse box wires, (the four white ones), and the starter wire, have to be tied into the power wire you run to the rear.

The only grounding issue you would have, is if you grounded your battery in the trunk. (My car ran like dog crap until I added more grounds.)

 

[STORTZ77]

engine fuse is good
im confused on what the power distribution block is? maybe a word for something that i know by something else.. haha
and where is the stock battery ground in the bay?

see this is why im confused.
i had a 2g power wire ran from my bay to my trunk
and then there is a grounded wire in the trunk.
i soddered the 4 wires together with the 2g power wire. and hooked that to the positive terminal and the negative(grounded in the trunk) to the neg terminal.
then there is the black w/ green stripe wire and i grounded it in the bay on the firewall

and my car turns over but wont start

 

[EclipticalGS]

When you took off your positive battery terminal, and pulled the wires off of it, You should have had;

(4) white wires, and one black w/red stripe Starter wire.

You take 2 of the white wires and twist them together. This goes into slot one of Power Dist. block.

Take the other 2 white wires and twist them together. This goes into slot two of the Power Dist. block.

Take your Starter wire, and put that into slot three.

Take your long 2Ga wire you plan to run to the trunk, and that goes into slot 4 of the block.

Then like I said, you can't just ground your battery in the trunk. It has to be grounded in the engine bay somewhere on the firewall.

Then you have your firewall to engine block ground, which should have never been touched for this swap unless you were tucking things.

That wire goes to the block somewhere by the starter is the easiest mount, to the firewall where the bolt hole and surface is bare metal.

 

[STORTZ77]

okay makes sense, now where does the black w/ green stripe go?

 

[talonalex92]

When you relocated it, did you ground the engine to the body of the car? The factory wiring has a ground tab that goes from the starter to the - on battery. It needs to be grounded to the car frame, any where up by the starter will work. The starter grounds through the trans, and the motor needs to be grounded to the body.