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ok heres the deal i relocated my battery in the trunk and i started the car and everything was all good..... this was yesterday... so i came out today and started it it ran fine.... so i turned it of and started it again and everything just shut off, like i blew a fuse or something but i checked all my fuses and they are good.....what did i screw up?

Sounds like the posative wire touched, might want to check the mega fuse by the coil pack.

there is no where for the positive to touch i checked.....

The megafuse wouldn't affect starting. only charging once started.

Do you have dash lights with the key ON?
Do you hear the fuel pump prime the first time you turn the key ON?
Do you have headlights with the key OFF, and when you flash your brights?
Brake lights with key off?
Interior lighting at anytime?
(Just determining where the problem is, by trying to determing different circuits that are affected...)

Does the car attempt to start?
Since you didn't mention your car YEAR, make, or model, I can't know for sure, so know I will have to ask anyway:
IF you have PATS, does the light flash with the key out of the ignition, or illuminate at all?

Ray

i have a 99 csvt.... i have nothin when i turn the key everything is dead......please help ....thanks tom

Okay..

You moved the battery to the trunk, but you didn't state what you did (fuses, etc).

Start off by making sure your connections are on tight.
Measure voltage across the terminals to make sure there is a voltage difference.
Then, you need to make sure that the voltage is making it from the battery in the trunk to the front (engine bay)

You can do that by measuring voltage from the main positive lead (coming from the trunk) to a ground in the front as well.. should be the same voltage as across the terminals, or close to it..

If that is fine, and you have voltage to your starter, then
F40 is the ignition fuse. Make sure that its good, still. (its in the Battery Junction Box.)

Even if something incredibly bad were to have happened, you should still have parking lamps, etc. (F40 powers the parking lamps, as well.. meaning that if the PCM bit the dust, etc, lamps should still illuminate, verifying F40's working, as well..)


I think you'll find a problem somewhere between the battery and the grounds. no ground = no ANYTHING. no need to determine fuses, circuits, or what is affected.. EVERYTHING is affected by "no power" (ie.. no ground, or no positive, BEFORE the BJB..)


Ray

ok i got 4 guage stinger wire for my ground and positve i got a stinger fuse block with a 200amp inline fuse and it is grounded great everything was done good im sure of.....

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Did you even attempt all of the steps that I gave you?
verify power in the engine bay?
verify F40 after that?


You answered "what you had", which was the first part of my reply, but seemingly ignored the rest, hoping that just knowing what you had would fix the problem.

There isn't much else anyone CAN tell you, other than yank it all out and redo it. If you don't feel like troubleshooting as I mentioned above, then I KNOW you don't feel like redoing it all. So what else are you looking for in a reply?


Ray

ok i figured it out i needed to add a nother ground i guess it needed grounded a little better.....but thanks for all the help....tom