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i won't be able to work on the car for a couple of weeks.. i need to do some honey do's.. but i have one thing that bothers me.. the starter has a direct positive and negative connection to the battery and the yellow wire that goes from the ignition switch to the inhibitor and finally to the starter... i bypass the inhibitor relay. tapped a direct line from the starter to the posititve battery just to test if my starter solenoid is still alive... nothing.. then that same wire when connected to the negative post turns the electrice fuel pump ON and tips my volt meter to the negative side???? with my fuel pump.. i know it's not very safe what i did.. i took the green wire and added a switch and tapped it to the acc off the ignition switch.. so my question is why does the fuel pump comes on and volt meter reeds negative... i was hoping i could find a popped fuse.. not this time... thanks

i did some more work on the zx and it was the starter solenoid.. replaced it and it crank for a few times... then nothing again... found something weird on my starter circuit... if i connect the the purple wire to the negative post then my fuel pump comes on and the volt meter on the car turns the other way (negative side) so i am convinced that i have a bad ground somewhere... i disconnected my wiper a while back because my fuse keeps popping... that's probably where the bad ground is coming from... i guess i am better of buying the ez wiring or painless.

hi, i have a 1980 280zx with a chevy 305.... the car has been running and i thought most of the bugs have been taken cared of... couple days ago, i bought a new battery wich is the same as the old one.. when i installed the new battery the car would not even crank? i tested the battery and it's reading around 13 volts... i am confused on what happened? now i am thinking of rewiring the whole car so i could start fresh... thanks for any input