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I'm guessing they were touching, I had had a ziptied throuht the hole and liquid tape covering them. In this awesome (sarcastic) winter we've had and the fact that I drive it hard they probably shifted apart.

But in any light thank you very much for the help, and you probably saved a screwdriver or two from slicing throughout the garage door lol

 

hahaha this is very true,id like tho thanks the guy on that other forum for telling me to just cut them off and seal em with vacuum caps. But atleast it was only that and no harm done to the car, as for my wallet thats a whole different story.

but yes after replacing the starter ($350), missing a day of school, having to drive a prius for 2 weeks, some bloody knuckles, tools thrown, and a couple of expletives; it started.

I grabbed that housing that originally holds them, tightened them, and whada know it fires. this almost warranted a ratchet being thrown at the garage door lol.

But i guess in hindsight it really was a good experience. while under the car i had found a nice layer of white crust and goo from the water pump flange. i replaced the pump, flange, and thermostat. If i hadnt been under there this probably woulda meant me on the side of the highway with no coolant. I also got the chance to really get into the car and i learned alot about it. Eventhough the new starter might not have been necessary, i guess this means i dont have to worry about it for another 100k.

that being said, and i honestly know the answer but ive been mislead before, that housing has nothing to do with it right? its just that they are tight to each other? so i could bolt them together, shield them and hold them back out of the way? reason being thats where i now have my catch can and i dont feel like remounting that

 

When I replaced my battery a year ago I didn't think about the hatch either, luckily I found out about the cable under the rear seat! I might make my own enclosure or do something where I can get em if I need em.

Just out if curiosity why did these cause that? I have had them apart for a while with a zip tie through the holes, so I'm guessing they were touching and just came apart eventually.

And if I hadn't had to go to lacrosse I would have gotten rides instead but it was a last ditch effort

 

The battery is only about a year old hahah, and luckily I was helping a friend do a battery relocation I his civic si, so I had some ratchet wrenches and my multimeter with me. And
Nod the battery checked out

Where exactly is the starter? I believe I see it down under the heat shield, but with these awesome )sarcastic) New England winters I was told to tap it with a rubber mallet and try but I don't want to just go hitting stuff under my hood:fingerscrossed::fingerscrossed:

 

So it ended up being the good ol Pepboys didn't know what the hell they were talking about. The cooper s apparently only has one starter. But beyond that they had them reversed in their system(one for the manual trans was under the auto listing and vise versa)

But now I'm stuck. I ended up going and getting one from the dealer. I put it in and tested it and it worked, put everything back on and now I'm back to that click. Took a multimeter to the battery and it was 11.89. I put on my jumper box and still nothing. Everything works all my electrical stuff, but I turn the key and get a single click then nothing.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm almost at the point of taking it somewhere cause I dint have the time or energy to work on this along with school and sports, burning don't like other people touching my car so I prefer to work on it myself. But at this point I just want to get it running again
Thanks,
Ben

**can someone bump this to get more attention??**

 

are you talking about the one thats mounted on the airbox, that you can jump the car from? a while ago i was told i could takem em out, cause i didnt want to have it hanging on my custom cai heat shield.right now i have them taped off and secured out of the way, but theyve been like this for a while. could this be an issue? and i just roll started it and i drove well. Granted i replaced the water pump and got a better filter but ive never felt it drive so well. so if the battery is dieing when under load thats usually only staring right? cause spark doesnt use that much juice?

 

Battery checkout fine at autozone, I'm gonna unwrap those two wires and bolt me together then re wrap them. If that's not it any idea where I could go next?