Starter won't go!

BosoMKII

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I am stumped. The starter won't click over. I tried taking power right off the battery to the solinoid to be sure it wasn't something wrong with my wiring, same results as turning the key.
Just put a new starter in and same deal. Could it be the battery? Not enough juice?
Any help would be great thanks!

Oh yeah, this is an old Toyota Corona with a 7M-GE. Starter is hooked up just like stock, power from the battery then starter switch from the ignition.
 
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I'm gonna guess and say that the Corona doesn't have an alarm like the Supra that'll kill power to the starter. So it may very well in fact be your battery. Might wanna take it to a parts store and get it checked.

Or the contacts in the ignition switch might be bad or going bad. But I'd check the battery since it's easy and free
 
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Thanks. Right no alarm or anything. Super basic circuit. I just tested the battery with a multimeter, and my battery reads the same as my friends known good battery.
Dunno. Scratching my head on this one. But I am no good with electronics, so hopefully its just something basic that I am oblivious too.
 
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SupraDerk

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Voltage could still read good while not enough current is flowing out of the battery. I'd still get it checked. The starter's plug is connected and it's grounded, the battery is grounded and terminals connected and the ignition is all wired up too right? I'm not trying to talk down to you or anything cause you obviously know about cars, haha I just know that we tend to overlook the simple things (I've forgotten to plug things back in multiple times).

Haha, there's not really a whole lot it could be. Either:
1) Bad starter
2) Bad battery
3) Bad wiring
4) Bad ignition switch
5) Bad clutch start(Manual T)/neutral start (automatic T) switch
6) Bad starter relay
7) Bad fuseable links
 
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have a look on www.mkiiisupra.net and search for starter fix or umthing like that. it requires a relay or something (im drunk just now lolo) but seriouslt theres a fix to your problem. or perhaps youy may need new contsaacrts inside the starter either way theres info on the above site to sort you out
 
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I thought the starter was grounded through the block? That must be it then, because I don't have a ground cable on there. Where does it attach?

MDCmotorsports said:
The starter does have to be grounded... + plus - equals click clicky spin spin.
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SupraDerk: Yeah don't even worry. I am really good with some things about cars but a complete idiot about other areas. Like wiring. Thanks for the help!

So the starter is brand new. The battery is less than a year old, but has been sitting a while, and I have used juice from it to test stuff on the car and been trying to get her to start. But I would think that I would get something even if the battery was pretty low, but no nothing.

The starter wiring is all unchanged from the factory engine, and it worked fine. SO it must be something really basic and stupid that I am over looking.

Thanks for the help guys!
 
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I didn't read all the bullocks, but my 2 cents is the battery cables. If you open them up and they are green, The battery will just kill it's self working through the cable sludge.
 
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Turbo. Targa. Life. said:
I think it's cuz the corona is rejecting the 7m...like a heart-transplant patient rejects a new heart :naughty:
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Its like if some old man needed a heart, so he went to his great-grandkid who was a super human with a crazy DOHC EFI heart and killed him for it so the old man could live forever! Same DNA, fits fine, just works hella better.


suprawannabe said:
From the starter case to a good know ground.
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Yeah but where on the case does that cable attach? I can't find a spot anywhere to bolt a ground strap! Thats why I thought the starter was grounded through the block, just by contact.
 
supra90turbo

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I wish I had a super human crazy DOHC EFI heart...

I'm with Derk. The battery could read perfect with a volt meter. The only way to tell if it's really good or not is to perform a load test on it. That'll show you the battery's true colors.

The starter does ground through the case, IIRC, and the case is grounded through the engine, and the engine should be grounded at multiple points to both the body and the battery. You're gonna need to run some ground wires. Pick up a roll of 10awg wire and some ring terminals and go to work.
Oh, and don't even tell me you're using factory Corona starter cables.... I don't care if you are, I don't want to hear it. If that's true, then you need to go buy new cables... like right now.
 
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Thanks for the advice man. Using Supra factory starter stuff actually. Newer and in much better shape than the old stuff.

Grounding out the engine then. Gonna get to work!
 
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Ok so I grounded out the block in several spots. Same thing.

Blah.

Really running out of ideas. No, strike that. I am out of ideas.
 
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I just realized that I grounded out to the front subframe. Maybe there isn't enough contact through to the body of the car and back to the battery all the way in the trunk. I will move the grounds and try agian. Still have not tried a different battery.
 
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