So here's the gist of what is going on. Stored the car back in December and all the electrical worked (headlights, interior lights, wipers etc.) and the ignition turned over. I remember checking some stuff out a couple months later and it all still worked. Finally had some time to start working on it again last month and now it won't turn over, no interior lights, no wipers but the headlights still come on. Checked and charged the battery and it is at full power. I assumed it was a fuse but when I checked the manual, for all the stuff that stopped working, there would be multiple bad fuses. My question is: Is it possible that more than one fuse died while it was sitting there or is the problem somewhere else?
Check your fuseable links, that is long enough and the right season for them to have corroded on you while sitting and no longer function.
If you're still dead after you've checked the fuse links, try wiggling the firewall harness plug. The pins in that can corrode!
Ignition switch. I missed the part where the headlights came on. I had that EXACT problem, nothing worked except the headlights. Replaced the ignition switch and all was good again.
unhook your neutral safety switch. after getting my car back from the transmission shop and SMASHING through a couple of donuts I put it away and next time I went to start the car nothing I tried everything I knew and then we made a call to my dad and he said unhook the neutral switch and it might start sure enough that was the problem
check the battery under a load, you need a voltmeter to do this.you can hook up a start button up to the solenoid and the meter to the battery and turn it over and watch the meter to see volt drop, the battery my measure good when no load.I would start there
BINGO! Replaced the ignition switch and everything works like it did before. The old one was totally hammered. I'm not surprised it wasn't working.
