Car: 94 gt 5.0
Hi,looking for some help with a smoking battery cable,its the small neg cable on the battery.
Here's what's happening: installed a few new parts,cap+ rotor and new coil,plugs wires, Tried starting the car but it did not fire,turned over nice and fast but no fire. So I had a look around the engine and noticed I had the distributor harness un plugged,so I plugged it in and tried to fire it up again thinking it should start now.
After a few seconds of cranking the engine, the starter instantly started turning very slow and erratic and that's when I noticed smoke from the engine bay,I discovered the small ground wire off the main battery ground was smoking. Now I'm curious if the dist. Being unplugged had anything to do with it,or if the starter can just go bad like that?
My next step I'm thinking just buy a new starter and cables and see what happens,anyone else have this problem?
Thanks
Hi,looking for some help with a smoking battery cable,its the small neg cable on the battery.
Here's what's happening: installed a few new parts,cap+ rotor and new coil,plugs wires, Tried starting the car but it did not fire,turned over nice and fast but no fire. So I had a look around the engine and noticed I had the distributor harness un plugged,so I plugged it in and tried to fire it up again thinking it should start now.
After a few seconds of cranking the engine, the starter instantly started turning very slow and erratic and that's when I noticed smoke from the engine bay,I discovered the small ground wire off the main battery ground was smoking. Now I'm curious if the dist. Being unplugged had anything to do with it,or if the starter can just go bad like that?
My next step I'm thinking just buy a new starter and cables and see what happens,anyone else have this problem?
Thanks