Thread: Starter problems

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I'm new to wrenching on cars and I have a 79 El Camino with a 350 crate engine. I was having problems with heat soak on the starter until one day I went to start the car and it was cranking over really sloooow. I heard a loud click come from the starter so I let off the key and went to try and start it agin and there was nothing no click, no hum,nothing it was like the starter wasn't even there. I removed the old starter and replaced it with a new one but I still get nothing. The battery is fine and I checked the wire end and polished them up before installing the new starter. I know this is a very common problem with chevy 350 and I plan on putting in a heat shield. Anybody have an idea what the problem could be? Any help would be appreciated!

Do you have a fuse link, built in to the battery cable. some of these cars do. You might want to splice in a new fuse into the positive battery cable or just replace the whole cable itself if you have one built in. This is probably what it is. When the starter gave out, it might have popped the fuse in the positive battery cable, if you have one.


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