1989 Toyota Tercel 5 speed stick trouble starting

Hi I have 1989 Tercel 5 speed stick, recently I had to change the rightbatery connector, it has fusible links in line, I''m not sure thepurpose of it, but the connector to the terminal was shot so Iunscrewed it and changed it anyhow, I had no problem starting theengine after changing it, then I tried to start it and it failed tostart, I lthought I wasn't pushing down the clutch enough,and then itstarted. Today, I was out driving, stopped and started no problem untilI made my ast stop at the gas station,went to start it up and nothing, checked the connection on the batteryterminals nothing loose, checked the inline fusible links all good,checked the fuseblock all good. Finally push started it and it startedright up, could it maybe the starte and nothing to do with the batteryterminals? I will try to post a picture of the terminal connecton forclarification

Thanks for any help.