LOL, I hope nobody is looking in here for something high tech! :jester

I had been having problems with my starter and with my battery draining too fast. I replaced my battery and alternator together and that fixed it for about six months, then I replaced the battery again...that was good for another six months. Well, my starter began making bad noises while cranking so I replaced the starter. While installing it I found a batch of three purple wires twisted together onto a terminal, but the terminal had broken off, and the remains of it was still attached to the battery connection on the starter. From my circuit diagram it looks like these wires go to the high power blower connection, and to the starter lockout. I reconnected them, but nother changed, except now the starter wouldn't crank at all...turning the key dims the lights a great deal though!

Here's what I figure happened. The wires going to the starter lockout became disconnected, as a result the power being sent to the starter solenoid was being pulled from somewhere else along a smaller gauge wire. At some point in time the small gauge wire melted a bit and shorted out against something...possibly at the firewall junction box, or perhaps in the ignition switch itself. Because of the short the starter wasn't getting enough juice and wasn't turning fast enough...this in turn will overheat the starter and melt some of the windings and terminals.

What I did temporarily is disconnect the wire from the starter solenoid, and ran a new wire through the vacuum line entrance into the car and under the seat and up to where I can push it down onto the battery to start it. this will work OK for a little while, but soon I will need to browse through all of the wiring and replace any that are suspect. I will probably also root out all the defuct original alarm system wiring just to ease my mind about any possible short in those circuits, and provide clean circuits for my new alarm system.