TriGuy
Newbie
Truck is a 92 K1500 with a 96+ Vortec crate 5.7 adapted for TBI. Rock solid reliable truck, have pretty much daily driven it for nearly 8 years. A lot of this post will be background info. Main issue at the end.
A while back the truck started to have issues starting. Was one of those deals where smacking the starter with a hammer would get it going. This worked for a while until it simply wouldn't crank anymore.
I replaced the starter with a new starter I had on hand that had happened to be out in the weather for a while. Snowed on, rained on, etc. Had it on hand so figured why not. Truck continued to have issues starting though they were new issues. Struggled to cold start, wouldn't hot start at all. Figured it was an issue with my "new" neglected starter.
Today I replaced the starter with a brand new Remy vortec mini starter as I had wanted a mini starter anyways. I noticed it seemed to fit a little weird in the bell housing. Went to start the truck, truck was now getting zero power. Come to find out replacing the starter again had finally been enough for the apparently very corroded fusible link from positive battery post to junction block. It totally fell apart.
I began to think maybe that junky old wire explained some of my starting issue and perhaps some other issues my truck has had on occasion that I'd begun to plan on redoing all the grounds to correct. So I fixed the fusible link.
Looked forward to finally having my truck start again, went to start the truck but all I get is a click from the new starter. As I said, the mini starter seemed to fit a little weird but I couldn't figure out why.
As I post this I'm out of daylight and looking for ideas for when I come back to it tomorrow. Right now I'm planning on just starting with throwing the previous starter in. If it doesn't have something to do with the seemingly weird fit of the mini starter I'm at a loss because I have never been one for electrical diagnosis.
A while back the truck started to have issues starting. Was one of those deals where smacking the starter with a hammer would get it going. This worked for a while until it simply wouldn't crank anymore.
I replaced the starter with a new starter I had on hand that had happened to be out in the weather for a while. Snowed on, rained on, etc. Had it on hand so figured why not. Truck continued to have issues starting though they were new issues. Struggled to cold start, wouldn't hot start at all. Figured it was an issue with my "new" neglected starter.
Today I replaced the starter with a brand new Remy vortec mini starter as I had wanted a mini starter anyways. I noticed it seemed to fit a little weird in the bell housing. Went to start the truck, truck was now getting zero power. Come to find out replacing the starter again had finally been enough for the apparently very corroded fusible link from positive battery post to junction block. It totally fell apart.
I began to think maybe that junky old wire explained some of my starting issue and perhaps some other issues my truck has had on occasion that I'd begun to plan on redoing all the grounds to correct. So I fixed the fusible link.
Looked forward to finally having my truck start again, went to start the truck but all I get is a click from the new starter. As I said, the mini starter seemed to fit a little weird but I couldn't figure out why.
As I post this I'm out of daylight and looking for ideas for when I come back to it tomorrow. Right now I'm planning on just starting with throwing the previous starter in. If it doesn't have something to do with the seemingly weird fit of the mini starter I'm at a loss because I have never been one for electrical diagnosis.