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onefast2gdsm

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Aug 30, 2010
millersburg, Pennsylvania
Ill start from the beginning. I pulled over to review a log, started the car fine, went to go and stalled it. Went to start it, and the starter just clicks. I tried another known starter same thing. I bench tested both and both work fine. I relocated my battery to the back, and have a ground from battery to original ground location and starter is grounded there to. Starter has a 4 gauge wire from a distribution block to it. This just happened out of nowhere and I'm stumped. I even hooked the battery to a tender and still nnothing. It just clicks on both known good starters. Suggestions?
 
I would ground the battery to the body and the body to the engine. I've never ran a ground all the way to the engine bay from the trunk. There is far less resistance in the body of the car (way more area for electrons to travel) than in the 4 gauge wiring. I also would of ran 2 or 0 from the battery to the starter.
 
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