Originally Posted by therza

Well my buddy called this morning to say he had to open the shop to shoot some clear on some panels. So I drove over to try and fix the no crank problem. I removed the main block ground that the battery harness uses just in front of the starter. I sanded the paint off the "pad" area and used a 1/2" wire round wire brush (plumbers brush) to clean the rust off the threads in the block. I was surprised to find rust under the paint on the surface of the pad. It took some considerable sanding to get down to shiny metal. But the real surprise was how much rust was in the threads in the block! A lot. Took several runs in with the wire brush to get to bare metal threads. That is all I did and it fired right up. No issues.

thanks for everyone's help and ideas. I appreciate it. I know that electrical problems can be hard to find, but this one turned out to be easy.

Don