Starting Troubleshoot (HELP!!)
A couple weeks ago I noticed that my car would take awhile to crank. For instance one morning I would try to start the car and it would just click repeatedly (I figured it was the starter going bad but I'll get to that later) and after a couple minutes waiting to try starting again it would finally crank. I thought it might be because my battery was low and found out that it was, so I bought a new battery.
Even after installing the new battery, the problems still occurred. My buddy told me to check the battery cables for battery acid build up and check to see if I'm getting enough voltage to my starter. Sure enough the voltage to my starter was off so I cleaned up the battery cables some, but my car was still not cranking right up. Then I thought it might be the starter, so after doing some research on honda-tech and team-integra, I found out that if you swap out the contact points using OEM Toyota parts it might help solve the problem. I went ahead and got the starter rebuild kit (contact points) and replaced them and put the starter back in and wired everything back up.
So this morning while trying to go to work, my car wouldn't crank period. I've checked to see if I messed anything up on the wiring for the starter, but everything's hooked up correctly and I triple checked just to make sure. I checked all my fuses and they're fine.
So here's what's happening:
When I put the key in the ignition and try to crank up the car, you can hear a whirring sound coming from the general direction of where the fusebox (next to the steering column) is. I can push-start my car and it'll run until I turn it off. The car has enough gas for it to crank and the fuel lines/pump seem fine. I called a couple places to see if I could get some electrical diagnostics done and said that it would cost ~$50 to just get it diagnosed. So now my car won't even start and I'm looking for your professional opinion cause it looks like I'm gonna have to walk to work tomorrow morning (~3.5 miles not terrible but would rather drive).
If there's anyone in the Athens area who can help, it would be greatly appreciated because I don't necessarily want to take my car to the shop and have them rape me on something I could've fixed for $5. If you can call me @ 404-717-9705 or PM, or reply to this thread every opinion will be generously taken into account. If you can help me fix my car I will pay you some cash and breakfast,lunch, or dinner and/or beer/liquor (depending on age). I'm planning to sell my car soon, so I really want to get this fixed and done right so the buyer can buy the car without any problems.
Thanks for looking and again it's greatly appreciated if I can get your professional.
OH YEAH! edit: car is a '94 GSR
if needed I will take video and upload to show you what's happening and will take pics of engine bay/interior if it'll help
EDIT: CAR IS UP AND RUNNING AGAIN WHOOOOOOO
PROBLEM WAS MY BATTERY CABLE TERMINAL $2 FIX LOL
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