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Was the car driveable after the engine swap? The Only way the PS fuse would have an effect on the starter is if some dope put the wires on the fuse box wrong. There should be 2 large red wires on the front connection and 1 on the rear.
The rear is fed by the PS fuse, the front comes directly from the battery and continues to the starter and alternator. If the PS was working but the starter was not some bonehead switched the wires.
Don Thanks., After the swap they did pop a fuse. I do not know which one but said it was a bad starter so they replaced it. Car ran fine for a month or so and then would not start , Fuse again ! I assume the same one I changed ! When I removed the bad fuse I did do a Ohm test and it was NG. Replaced and all is well ! It was the 60Amp fuse upper left corner is what I changed ! SO in your opinion it has been around 2 months or so since install and working fine ! If wired wrong would it only mess up once in awhile or all the time ? Thank You for you info
The 60 amp fuse you mentioned is the EPS fuse, should have nothing to do with the starter
The wire just to the top left is the EPS motor connection, is it mixed up with the starter wire?
Blue that was my thought ! But that was the bad fuse I replaced then car started :O
As mentioned I wonder if something is loose and moving that fuse reconnects ?
As mentioned by Don I wonder if they got a wire crossed when they installed the motor ? if they did would it run after ?? Then run several weeks ?
Isn't the starter on it's own circuit ?
But when the HHR would not start you could hear the Relay click
It has happened before! Stupid is as stupid does. We have had at least 2 instances here that I recall.
The ONLY way the EPS fuse could have anything to do with the starter is by putting the starter wire on the EPS terminal. Which would supply 60 amps to the starter that is supposed to have virtually unlimited amps (there is no fuse), sometimes it might draw more than 60 Amps, if say the steering wheel was being turned at the same time the starter was engaged. The charging current could get to the battery through the "back door", not very efficiently.
I still haven't heard if this "won't start" is actually "starter doesn't turn" or not.
This is the only scenario I can imagine. Doesn't anybody know what a relay or fuse does? Too basic for me to go into.
It has happened before! Stupid is as stupid does. We have had at least 2 instances here that I recall.
The ONLY way the EPS fuse could have anything to do with the starter is by putting the starter wire on the EPS terminal. Which would supply 60 amps to the starter that is supposed to have virtually unlimited amps (there is no fuse), sometimes it might draw more than 60 Amps, if say the steering wheel was being turned at the same time the starter was engaged. The charging current could get to the battery through the "back door", not very efficiently.
I still haven't heard if this "won't start" is actually "starter doesn't turn" or not.
This is the only scenario I can imagine. Doesn't anybody know what a relay or fuse does? Too basic for me to go into.
WOW great answer ! Thanks ! I do know what a relay and a fuse does as I used a type of relay in the HVAC trade!
but never thought about power back feeding ! I could not figure out how they were connected so that make sense ! I I \'ll ask them to double check the wiring connection and inspect wires to see if any chaffing !
Again Thank you and everybody
LOL I finally had a slow week ! Doing demo on a Mobile home. FYI NEVER again lol Got the fuel line fixed today on my HHR so 1 HHR back on the road ! I was re reading some post and saw that comment on the EPS wire by fuse box being mixed up wit starter wire ! Missed it last time , But curious would the starter wire reach the fuse box ?
