Well, i went to try to start my engine today, it attempted to turn over once, then the starter started clicking like crazy, i pulled the key out and it was still clicking like crazy, i ran to the back and pulled the terminals off the battery. When i came back around front there was white smoke seeping out of the main harness(the big black casing) pulled it off and found a brown/yellow wire completely melted. It comes out of a green sleeve that connects afew other wires and heads down under the intake. I havent done anything in that box, so its all still factory. HELP!
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Dont know why you had the smoke but you have the two smaller starter wires on reversed so you are getting a constant instead of a switched via key signal, hopefully you didnt burn up the starter. -
i traced the melted wire and it was comming from the oil sensor, the starter didnt start to go until i hit the key, it just wouldnt stop when i pulled the key out.Comment
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oil preasure or oil level?
you didnt attach your reverse light wires to the engine did you?Comment
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got the car running yesterday, here is what i did,
I for some reason thought that pin 1 on the engine side of the harness was oil level, which is wrong, pin 2 is oil level and pin 1 is 12v power for something(running off the starter circuit). So basically my starter was trying to suck the power to start it through the oil level sensor and a 14 gauge wire.... I cut my connection to pin one, and the car runs great, so i just need to hook it inot pin 2 and im all good!
91 E34 525I btwComment
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