Did you check the ammeter? If it shorted the car will never start again.
Since the PO botched the wiring did you double check that all the
connections are correct by, if need be, unraveling the harness a bit?
Make sure the grounds are good also.
To me it sounds like it may be the positive battery cable going to the
starter or the starter harness that powers the entire car. With the battery
disconnected wiggle the harness and then reconnect and see if that helps.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "audela2" <audela2@cox.net>
To: "Roadster Mail Group" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 1:56 AM
Subject: Engine in, now she won't start
> 3 weekends later and we have everything pretty much put together. The
"new"
> engine is installed in the '64, transmission is in place. PO did a horrid
> rewiring job so it's a total mess under the hood. The only wire mod we
did
> this time around was toreplace the loop wire end at the solenoid with a
female
> spade one so the wire would just slide onto the spade on the new starter.
>
> After getting everything back together, Len checked the headlights to make
> sure we had power. They worked fine. Turned the key, the engine turned
over
> once, then nothing. No lights, no nothing. Any ideas on how to proceed
with
> troubleshooting (short of the complete rewire we have planned?)
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Charlotte & Leonard Hoover
> Phoenix, Arizona
> '64 SPL310 1500
> '64 SPL310 1600
> '67 SPL311 1600
> Plus various non-running projects
>
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