No Start. HELP
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No Start. HELP
1976 f150 ranger. 390. Automatic. 4x4. Power steering. New battery. New power master mini high torque starter. New starter solenoid. New battery cables. Ground is solid. Newer ignition switch. Truck started prior to installing headers. Replaced starter. Installed headers. Hooked battery up and new solenoid. Went to start the truck and all I hear is a click. One single click. Went to jump the solenoid and nothing. No sparks no crank. Battery is fully charged. The ignition switch is fairly new. Maybe a couple months old. I also installed a new/used steering column and mounted the neutral safety switch where its suppose to go on the column during all this as well. What am i missing? Can a bad wiring harness in the steering column cause this? is the neutral safety switch the issue? im out of town for work but i just need some ideas on where i should start looking for when i get home in a few days.
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I would very carefully install a temp jumper wire bypass on the NSS switch to rule it out. Are you sure you wired the new high torque starter correctly?
"When the trucks came with a manual trans, there was a dummy plug used to bypass the NSS switch. I've never been able to come up with a part number for the dummy plug. To bypass the automatic set up: Unplug the switch and discard or ignore. There are four wires in the harness plug, two each, red w/ blue trace and black w/ red trace. Run a jumper between the red/blue and red/blue, do the same for the black/red. That completely bypasses the NSS switch. Your truck will now start and the back-up lights will be permanently on. Now on to the backup lights.In the engine compartment is a little U shaped jumper wire. It'll be located on the drivers side splash pan, just in front of the firewall where the wiring harness comes through. Unplug the little jumper, this will shut off the back up lights. There should be a back up light switch on the trans cover. Run two wires from the switch to the two wires that were jumped. This will get your back up lights working again. Just a note, you could make a jumper plug out of the NSS. Cut the switch off the harness and splice the two pairs of wires. I just hate to cut these switches up. New, they're getting pricey. Here's the little jumper in the engine compartment.
EDIT: If you don't care about the back up lights, just jumper the red w/ blue trace wires. This will by pass the NSS but the back up lights won't work."
"When the trucks came with a manual trans, there was a dummy plug used to bypass the NSS switch. I've never been able to come up with a part number for the dummy plug. To bypass the automatic set up: Unplug the switch and discard or ignore. There are four wires in the harness plug, two each, red w/ blue trace and black w/ red trace. Run a jumper between the red/blue and red/blue, do the same for the black/red. That completely bypasses the NSS switch. Your truck will now start and the back-up lights will be permanently on. Now on to the backup lights.In the engine compartment is a little U shaped jumper wire. It'll be located on the drivers side splash pan, just in front of the firewall where the wiring harness comes through. Unplug the little jumper, this will shut off the back up lights. There should be a back up light switch on the trans cover. Run two wires from the switch to the two wires that were jumped. This will get your back up lights working again. Just a note, you could make a jumper plug out of the NSS. Cut the switch off the harness and splice the two pairs of wires. I just hate to cut these switches up. New, they're getting pricey. Here's the little jumper in the engine compartment.
EDIT: If you don't care about the back up lights, just jumper the red w/ blue trace wires. This will by pass the NSS but the back up lights won't work."
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"Maybe the mini starter isn't any good, that would be typical." Brand new mini high torque starter with a dead short right out of the box for me a couple years ago. Yanked it back out and bench tested with a battery and jumper cables . Could also have found the short with volt/ohm meter. I would shoot for the easy to diagnose starter first.. good luck !
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