ryclef331 said:
d_punch said:
do you have an alarm in it?
my next guess. its going to be something stupid. watch, i'd bet on it.
they always are
since i won't be back on the site till monday or so i'll give my reason why i ask if you have an alarm.
one day i went to leave work and the car wouldn't start, no cranking , not even a click, but it had power with the key in the on position. took the battery to get tested and it passed with flying colors. so i thought to myself it had to be the starter, it has power but it doesn't crank. after spending the entire next day changing the starter with my father with just the jack that was in the trunk and a socket set, in the dead of winter the motherfucker still wouldn't crank.
next thing that poped in my head was the alarm it does kill the ignition. i was lucky enough to have went to a local school that teaches how to instal auto alarms and audio systems in cars, when i was just 17. so i under stood how it worked and was wired.
i come to find out, since i bought my cobra used, that it still had a dealer installed alarm. the second thing i found out was that a complete fucking ass hat installed it. i was digging all up into the dash to try and find the brains of the alarm, since most tell you on the back which color wire goes where. and for the life of me i couldn't find. well this asshat mounted the brain right behind the clutch pedal on the firewall. and what happen was when you would push the clutch pedal down it would hit the alarm brains right where the wire harness would connect to it. so after 5 years of that it recked the internal connection of the harness.
went to a local ford dealer they want $250 for an alarm brain. they got a NJ one finger salute.
so i just went under the dash and bypassed the ignition kill switch and tossed the brain out.
the sob started right up.
so check your alarm, the ignition kill is a simple relay. they cut your ignition wire and hook each end to different termials on a relay. when the alarm is tripped the relay switch moves and the ignition wire loses it's contact ( no juice) until the alarm is disarmed and the switch goes back.
so you can just pull your ignition wire off of that relay and reconnect them and see if it starts. if it does either that relay is bad, or something is wrong the the alarm else where.
hope this helps
Joe