[doogo99]

The car has been sitting for a long time and the battery has long since gone flat due to a grounding/drain issue but that's beside the point. I charged the battery and when I turn the key all I get is "tick-tick-tick." A mechanic looked at it and it started turning over but there was no fuel, and he figured that the fuel pump wasn't receiving any signal. We checked out the relay and the cutoff switch and nothing, somehow missed the fact that the fuse was blown, so I replaced it and "tick-tick-tick" again. Now the mechanic is gone and I searched and found that maybe it's a bad fuel pump causing the fuse to blow but does the ticking sound like a starter motor problem? Any advice please?