Well maybe I didn't almost lose my head but i forgot to take the battery off and I was getting once of the wires on the starter out and low and behold sparks flying at me from the starter area. I immidatly moved out of the way and just waited about a second till the sparks stopped.

Now did I just blow all the money I am saving doing headers by frying my starter....I have all my plugs and o2's already disconnected so I cannot crank it to check it.

I was disconnecting the wire on the starter(bottom left one) and I was going to put some force to loosed it and I hit the two silver lines down their(fuel lines?). It was then followed by sparks flying down at my head . I am not a big electrical guy but if anybody knows what I did and what are the chanceds I fried my starter????????

Thanks to anybody who can help .



PS - A header install is full of suprises

 

I dunno if you fried it, but I suggest disconnecting either the positive or negative terminal on your battery, dumbass.


P.S. - I've done this in the past myself, so don't feel bad.

 

I have also done it, the car just tried to start, and shocked the **** out of me, but no harm done to the car, you should be fine.

 

I did htat too one... was trying to check something on the pligs.... was too lazy to unbolt the battery... so I took my Starter off.... and somehow left is dangling by a wire... while I disconnected a nother wire on it...any how when I wa reaching up under the Block... one of the wires touched my pipe and Blamo!!! Huge freaking fireworks show.... scared the H3ll out of me..

Live and Learn...

 

I didn't do it with my starter.. but when I was doing my header install.. I was kneeling on my engine working on the passenger side header with an L-Handle. My battery was connedted because I was not doing anything electical.. so I didn't even think to unhook it.. So I'm working away while my buddy is under the car, and the L-Handle touched something, I think it might have been an alternator bracket or something it was just some metal thing, and sparks flew from the L-Handle down towards my friend lmao! Didn't hit him but he was close.

From then on.. I ALWAYS disconnect the negative terminal no matter WHAT I'm doing.

 

Heck I took the battery completely out of the car. Makes for a but more room to work

 

Precisely why most procedures have "disconnect negative battery cable" as the first step.

 

So it souds like it should be fine right?

 

That same thing happend to me! Dont feel bad, something stupid always happends to everybody. it should be fine. Mine worked fine when i turned it back on

 

I almost crapped my pants when I did it... All was fine after though, Luckily for me, the starter was already fryed when I was removing it