wiring: where to start
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Need more info... I take it you replaced the starter? What year and what motor do you have?
How did you test it?... You need to see if your getting power to your starter solenoid. Solenoid might be mounted on the fender, or does it have the gear reduction starter with the solenoid on it? Get out a test light and see if you getting power to the small wire the starter or on the solenoid while somebody trys to start it.
What else doesnt work? Dash lights the only other thing not working?
battery hooked up?
Jacket
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Yea - is your battery charged, hooked up and is everything grounded?
As mentioned before, check your main grounds and then check for power at the starter solenoid connector.
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Here's Coolerman's excellent schematic resource.
Coolerman's Electrical Schematics and FSM File Retrieval
Coolerman's Electrical Schematics and FSM File Retrieval
tucker74
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if you are using a stock fuse panel/harness go through all your connectors.. mainly the fuse box itself and clean them all with a wire brush/little bit of sandpaper to get nice shiny copper - i had the same problem as you.. solved by cleaning all my connections.
Before you follow antFJ's advise, make sure the battery is disconnected or the brush could connect the sides of an unswitched socket and bring sparks
