1973 e3 will not crank

[Ohmess]

When I replaced my ground cable, I added another ground from the bolt on the body where the (new) battery terminal was grounded, which went from there to the block. Cheap insurance.

 

[amg5872]

Battery connections, fence, and neighbor‘s pool…

 

[bavbob]

Is your car an automatic? Where does this infamous wire you found, go to? The starter?, the relay under the brake booster?

 

[amg5872]

Is your car an automatic? Where does this infamous wire you found, go to? The starter?, the relay under the brake booster?

It's a manual transmission. I didn't really find any troublesome wires. The issue as I understand it is that all of the wires that feed from the positive battery terminal had a poor connection to the terminal. This includes the big wire (or wires) that go to the starter. So cleaning up the connection to the positive battery terminal resolved my issue.

 

[bavbob]

I asked because the auto has an additional relay that if non-funtional as in my case, the starter was dead. My relay was receiving only 7 volts even after new fuses and cleaning all the fuse box connections, front and back. I had to run a wire from the battery directly to the relay and once done, starter came alive (NB: ain't smart enough to figure this on my own, SFDon was my guru).