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Old 08-29-2016, 05:27 PM
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so I went to start my car last week and nothing happened it just clicked and started smoking electrical smoke out from under the hood so I thought I had burnt the starter up so I went and bought a msd dynaforce starter and while I was replacing that I noticed the negative battery cable was melted to my header I replaced that positive side was fine. then I was still unsuccessful. so I went and replaced the battery thinking the other one might have dead cells in it and replaced the starter relay and it still wont start it just clicks one time and that's it what am I missing.
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your ground cables need to be fixed and the POS cable needs to be 0 gauge and hooked up well.
look at all the relays too.

you can never has too many grounds and clean terminals.
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Make sure you didn't fry 1 of the 2 wires that go to the ignition cylinder.



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