Okay, so I'm a bit pissed that I let this happen but nonetheless, it happened and there's no way to go back in time to fix it so here's my problem.
A couple days ago, I noticed a car alarm going off and it sounded faint so I didn't think much of it. Later when I went out to my car, I noticed that it was my car's alarm going off and that it was the battery going dead. I decided I should jump the car to charge the battery at the least as not to allow the battery to completely sulfate. The main problem is that I can only get to the positive battery post from the side, not the top and therefore the clamp straddles the negative battery post.
After I had successfully started the car, I was removing the jumper cable clamps and by accident shorted the negative to the positive with the clamp. The contact was maybe a second. I went to check the car and now the starter doesn't click, doesn't do anything. All the gauges come to life, everything electrical comes on, even the fuel pump spins to pressurize the system.
Now in theory, I would think if anything happened, maybe the alternator died because I just presented it with a short but that wouldn't explain the starter not turning over. My best guess is probably a fuseable link has been fried but I haven't gotten a chance to take a look at it yet because I needed to be somewhere that day so I don't have any diagnosis just yet other than the fuses in the dash are good. I'm going to check the starter solenoid to see if it's getting 12V when I turn the key and start from there but I was wondering if anyone else had any other things to check before I dive into it.
Thanks in advance.
-Bruce