Oldblue. The one I posted above says 2006 LT (did you lose your glasses again )

Sadly. Those SS files I got from Lucky are still in my old desktop that seized up. I need to retrieve them one day and put them in my new desktop.

 

Well that explains that. I didn't see the LT designation

 

The first one I posted was for 2009, just because that was already open. I checked it's the same for 2006 and for SS.

I guess somebody should do a visual. Is there a purple solenoid trigger wire or not?

You are using the "distribution" diagram, mine is the circuit diagram.

I see now! the distribution does not include the solenoid and is not clear which relay; there is a "run/crank" and a "crank".

 

Thanks, Men! The schematics will help. I was using a multi-meter, that has never failed me (maybe until now!). The car is 140 miles from me. I will update when I get down there when the new starter comes in.
Everyone is pretty sure, though, that there is no fusible link in the red wire from battery to starter?

 

The diagram that FMG posted, there is something between the starter and the generator. Not sure what it is, maybe just a junction or splice?

But between the starter and the battery is the fusebox, with 1 relay and 1 fuse. When you tested for voltage in "crank" position, was the clutch pedal depressed? Or do you have an automatic(in park or neutral)?

 

It is an automatic transmission in park. I tested the first fuse on left (#5?) for continuity (with the same multi-meter) I will pull and check relay #34 when I get down there. There is a section of that one red wire to starter that is yellow with a factory splice down near the starter lug, as I recall, hence my question about a fusible link. It felt intact and normal. I could pierce the insulation proximal to that splice with a needle and test for voltage above yellowish portion.

 

I just looked at my '09, there is an orange fusible link attached to the top lug of the starter, that turns to red/black, but it runs over to the generator.

Also on that top lug is unknown wire(s) in a plastic shell(loom) runs up to the fuse box.

 

Thank you! That is the only thing that makes sense at this point, a fusible link. But not in the wire from the battery, eh?

 

Well, the battery is way in the back of the vehicle. The wire from the battery doesn't go directly to the starter. ... well I just don't know, I suppose there could be, I haven't had a reason to tear into the looms.

 

So that dot on the diagram between the starter and the generator must signify the fusible link, and I see no more dots between the starter and the fuse block, nor between the fuse block and the battery.

It looks like the red wire to the starter is "hot at all times", so there should have been power there. You said the starter turned at first, so there was. You may have fried a wire?

Wait, you also said you attempted to jump start it. Improper jumpstarting has fried things many times here. Did you follow the instructions in the owners manual?