Disconnected battery cable and reconnected, now starter wont engage Options

[ericoneal]

I disconected the positive (and neg) cables. Reconnected, and now the car wont start. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) The dash lights and fuel pump come on, headlights are bright, battery is fully charged, but no click or anything. I checked all of the fuses under the steering wheel and 3 of them on the firewall by the battery and all are good.
Are there other fuses that I am missing? SHe has always fired up, really frustrated....

[ThePaintedMan]

Hard to tell from just a picture, but it sure looks like the small red one should be hot with ignition on, like you said. The large red is constant 12V.

If that doesn't get you going in the right direction, you could go back to my hypothesis that the ignition switch itself is bad. Try turning the key over to the other side and then inserting it. Also try jiggling the key when you have it turned to "start."

[ericoneal]

Tried the key both ways, jiggled. I dont think its that because I've NEVER had a problem getting this car to turn over until I reconnected the battery. I also cleaned some oil that was pooled on the engine here, that had some wires nearby:

that got jiggled a bit.

But thats all it took to kill it.

Hard to tell from just a picture, but it sure looks like the small red one should be hot with ignition on, like you said. The large red is constant 12V.

If that doesn't get you going in the right direction, you could go back to my hypothesis that the ignition switch itself is bad. Try turning the key over to the other side and then inserting it. Also try jiggling the key when you have it turned to "start."