Got the contacts changed, now there is not power to anything the key has to be on for it to work. The wiring is from hades so im taking it to an electrican tomorrow. to get it worked on. What might be the problem?

 

Do you mean you have no power with the key on, and did the problem start when you changed the contacts?
Dave

 

before i took the starter off i have power with the key on meaning my cd player came on my gauges moved, after changing the contacts i have nothing but head lights.

 

should be a fuse link with red and blk wire goes to ign swt. you sure you have these hooked to batt.( disconnected when you dropped cable to work on starter.
Clark

 

That woud be my first guess too, check for an extra wire laying around the pos terminal.

 

nope thats hooked up.

 

I took a test light to it and every thing is gettin power comming off the battery. I havent got a clue whats wrong.

 

are you sure you have power to both sides of the fusible link. also don't overlook a bad neg ground cable, checg ground batt to frame/firewall
Clark

 

Could be the bulkhead connector? I`ve had them give me probs on other Dodge trucks I`ve had. It`s on the firewall near the master cyl, it`s held together by a 8mm(5/16) bolt in the center. Pop it apart and look for green crud on the contacts.

 

i took that off yesterday and took a test light to it. Didnt see any crud. Everything that ive found has been plugged in. I dont know whats goin on

 

If you had power to everything before you "fixed" it, and only changed the starter contacts, I would suggest that you start right there and take it back apart and reclean things and put it back together. Many times I have run into that same scenario and found one wire end has just enough corrosion left on it to break contact, causing one circut to not power up. Sometimes a wire drops down and you miss it when reassembeling it. Good luck

 

what hemi cat said go back to the starter

 

Took it to an auto electric guy (who is a god in my books) a couple of wires are bad and the cable is bad so he is gonna change them and then fix a couple of lights and ill be in business. thanx for your input tho guys i looked and looked and couldnt find it tho. so i took it to a professional.

 

well glad to hear its fixed, even if you had to pay someone

 

I dont care i can break in my new checking account