Okay. After looking thru the starter hole and checking the flywheel and starter gears for damage I said F-it and just put everything back together. Tried starting it the first time and it was very very close to starting but no. Then I felt confident, tried it one more time and applied gas as soon as I thought it may have started. It made a groan but then it started and now its running fine. A little bit of rattling in 1st 4th and reverse gears but that went away after about 5 miles driving.

Possible causes why I had trouble starting it for an entire week: Starter wasn't sitting in there perfect. Ground wire was soaked with transmission fluid. Car had been sitting for a month getting overhauled and just didn't feel like waking up. Fuel level was low and maybe not ideally clean and fresh.

Well I successfully did a clutch change thanks to this forum. Although it took me pathetically long I saved some money and the sense of self satisfaction is the best part. I feel like theres nothing I can't fix on my car except maybe a fuel pump or F-ing around with the gas tank...But hell I could swap a honda engine i feel like.

If anyone's like me they get depressed when their car starts dying. I mean I've had this car since highschool and put 120,000 miles on it. It almost has 200,000 now. I've made it last through so much. Its great on gas through this fuel crisis and I've run from cops in it and got away. I've hit rabbits possums deer and even cows in it and have nearly hit people and even tried to hit people. I've driven it through a fence on a stormy winter night. I've slept in it many times. I lived in it for a week. I've snuck into and out the impound to get it back. I've spilled countless beers in it and drank many fixing it. I've scavenged through west virginia junk yards looking for parts for it. Its sentimental to me. When it dies I will try to ressurect it. It can live forever