Battery cable ruled out

[blake at clockworm.com (Blake Irvin)]

no don't shut up.  i need all the info i can get.  i've done  
everything mr. bentley says to, with no results.  i don't want to  
take the car to the shop for this, cause it'll be my other arm and my  
other leg in labor this time.

i guess i should look at the distributor.  but remember, the starter  
is not even cranking.  that's the weird bit.  so i need to know all  
the bits that interact between the key turning and the starter  
turning over.

does anyone have a pic of a properly wired battery in a 16v?  mine  
looks like it's been hacked a little bit.

blake/


On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:26 PM, C Boyko wrote:

> On 9:01:18 pm 11/14/05 Blake Irvin <blake@clockserver.homeip.net>  
> wrote:
>> oh - that is, fuel distributor, not electrical distributor, that we
>> pressed on.
>>
>> blake/
>>
> Oh, I understood that, but there has to be something pretty  
> fundamental
> that went wrong, I was just wondering if you'd done a regular tune  
> up sort
> of deal at the same time. I guess it's possible that some other  
> thing came
> up randomly at the same time, like you sheared your crank keyway or
> something, but what are the odds? It has to be something that got  
> knocked
> loose in and around the airbox. And wiring connections are the most  
> likely
> candidates, like: grounds/battery wires (but you checked those),  
> the plug
> to the hall sender on the distrubutor, the cold start wiring plug,  
> that
> stuff on the DS side of the block. I had a starting issue once that  
> was
> from the plugs to the cold start and some sensor (temp?) on the head
> getting switched around. Okay, I'll shut up now ;)
> cathy
>
>