HELPPPPP BLOWN SOMETHING????

[calelux]

the main wire from the battery to the stater motor has melted and shorted on my manifold therefore something big has blown!

i fixed the wire and tried to start and nothing ! lights and stero work but no crank at all!
its a mq diesel!
is there a relay for starting???/ or something

thanksss

[murcod]

Could be your starter motor solenoid is stuffed (open circuit or stuck?) It pulls in and makes the electrical contact for the high current to the starter motor.

Try thumping it firmly with something while somebody tries to crank the engine.

[Tas_Dean]

Your battery could be cactus, or the earth wire may have melted. The cable from the battery to the starter motor is unfused, and if it shorted to the manifold MASSIVE amounts of current would flow, in the positive and the negative (or earth) strap. The battery could have gone flat (very Quickly), and the plates could have buckled.
Did you reconnect the solenoid wire (the thin wire to the starter motor)?

And, the question I really want to know, Is there a hole in the manifold??????????

Cheers, Dean

[calelux]

na no hole in the manifold
battery is ok i think!
im thinking it might be the glow relay i dont know it just wont crank at all!
help this must have happened to someone ????/

thanks

[mickyd555]

does it click at all??
can you clutch start it?

[calelux]

no nothing at all few clicks coming from the glow relay thats all?

[mickyd555]

have you tried jump starting it? the battery sounds like its shit it self. and have you repaired the cable?