92 honda Civic not turning over electrical

Jorja

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I have a 92 honda civic dx, I have turbo, swapped crx motor, intake under the hood. I haven't been driving that car mainly, it's been sitting but starting when I did turn it on.

I had to get a horn installed, had someone come wire one up, it started. The guy found a piece to the car while wiring, I didn't see it but my brother said it looked like the plastic piece from clutch safety switch.My brother was 'fixing' the car and added coolant and the car now won't turn over.
When starting the car, the lights in the car, headlights all work fine.
We replaced the spark plugs first, battery test at auto zone (it was good), replace alternator and then the starter, fuses under the hood checked good, main relay was checked (swapped with my bro main relay and still nothing). Still nothing, not turning over. We had already five 'mechanics come look at it and each them are as clueless as the next. The neighbor keeps saying it's an electrical problem.
Last night we checked the clutch safety switch, I don't think this would be the problem because I have started my car without pressing the clutch before. But In my civic, it still has the clutch safety switch, no wiring hooked to it and the plastic stopper is not there.
Now were at a standstill, any suggestions please. I was thinking it can be a blown head gasket because the oil hasn't changed in for ever sitting there but one of the mechanics said it's not that.
 

xxBLOOD88SHOTxx

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Have you checked for voltage from the ignition wire when you turn the key over?
 


Jorja

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Grounding wire

Well we were outside for 6 hrs and finally figured out it's the grounding wire, with the neighbors help. The guy who installed the horn, installed it on the only grounding available. The car was jump started through the starter and it was running fine but then all the lights, radio etc starting shutting off. So we have to find some new grounds to regrouped to the engine. After that, make sure the starters good starting by itself and the alternator hooked on properly because the car was pulling from the negative charge of the battery and that's why all the stuff started to shut off. The neighbor happen to be an electrician and rebuilds cars, so we got lucky with him helping today.
 

mymmeryloss

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Sounds like this thing has more problems than what you are trying to fix...
 




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