found a few of the issues. my stater was toast, the wiring from starter to alt to coil to ext voltage reg is all melted. so i have to hunt down a new harness and that should allow me to fire her over.Where is your ground cable from the battery bolted? Should be to the engine block or something that is bolted to the engine block such as the alternator bracket. Do not ground the battery directly to the frame. Instead, you should have a braided copper ground strap between the engine block and the frame. Then you can have a smaller gauge ground wire running off the Negative clamp to the body sheet metal.
