I'm quite frustrated about my situation... Here's the scenario:

Everything's fine... Then the next day, I crank the engine, and it turns over once, then I lose a LOT of electrical juice to everything and nothing happens (I say a lot because there seemed to still be a little bit of electricity, as noted by the deeply muted beeping sound of the key in the "on" position).

I check all connections and the fuses and everything was fine. I then took off the battery connection and re-did them and made sure to tighten them as securely as possible. I hook up jumper cables and jump start the car and it starts.

I turn the car off and try to turn it back on again without jumper cables... and it reverts back to losing all of it's power.

I then take the battery out to charge it. I hook it up to the battery charger, and it reads that my battery is 100%. I put battery in another car, and it starts fine. I then put it back into my car and crank it... and nothing happens!

So I take off my UIM to check my Microtech wiring harness and alternator wiring. Everything is fine, so I put stuff back together and try cranking it without jumper cables. IT STARTS!

Then I drive to the gas station and after getting gas, I crank it and the SAME DAMN THING HAPPENS! I try rustling some wires and took off and re-connected my battery connection, but it won't crank... So I have to revert back to
jump starting.

I'm so pissed and frustrated right now I don't know what to think or do anymore! Please help!

 

How old is the starter?

 

Starter was never replaced. I've had it since I've had the car. The car has 125,000 miles... Could it possibly be the starter draining my power?

 

If the brushes or commutator are fried. Don't think 125K would do it, though, unless it's had a rough life...It sounds like a bad battery, too, but you said you had that covered....How old is the batt?

 

The battery is 2 weeks old. Well when I had the tranny off the car with the starter still on it, I was dragging it along the ground, and also sprayed the whole tranny and everything with water and simple green to wash the grease and grime off of them. Could that have been enough to damage the starter? BTW, thanks for taking the time to help me figure this out.

 

Man, if your problems started after the "water injection" (pun intended), definetly take a good look at the starter.

There aren't a whole lot of circuits powered by the "start" position on the ignition, so it could only possibly be a couple of things anyway...

 

How would I check to see if the starter was bad or not?

 

take it to autozone and have them test it. I think that it is free, too!

 

Thanks, I took the starter to have it checked out at Kragen, and found the starter to be bad. Thanks for all the help!

 

how is the starter bad if the engine started with jumper cables...

 

Twice the amp capacity got the juice to flow past the bad spot(s) on the brush/comm junction, most likely...

Stranger things have happened in the world of electrons...