Please help power failure
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Racer
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From: Forrest City Ar
Please help power failure
after spending all day tieing up loose ends from engine and transmission install ( my first hadn't even changed a spark plug in years) while hooking up battery got a smoking wire something like engine compartment light not real sure my father was observer. reconnected battery leads now have no switched power, brake lights ect. did not have too much time check much I did look at fuse box. did not see anything jumping out but it's hard to tell Bubba did my wiring also. Any suggestions on where to start? I was thinking go back to the fuse box with the volt meter. I was really hoping to get the car started today
Drifting
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From: Oak Ridge NC
If the smoke came from the engine compartment, the first place to check would be the fusible links. Do a search on them..plenty of posts about it.
Before you replace the link, you need to figure out what is hooked up wrong, or it will just fry again.
Before you replace the link, you need to figure out what is hooked up wrong, or it will just fry again.
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Racer
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From: Forrest City Ar
Thanks guys I would find this link in the 2 red wires that go to starter hot post? Also since we are looking at the starter It is wired like this main battery hot and then the two red wires in one connector on the big terminal, the small connector on the small terminal. I also have a black wire with a big connector does it go to starter or ground to engine? Thanks a Million Tom
Ok just took the flashlight under the car and found two whiteish tubes in the starter wires, fusible links? Am I also to assume that you do not open these up and replace a fuse inside but cut these out and splice in new units? may be the 3" of bare wire in front of one of them is part of the prob. Thanks again
Ok just took the flashlight under the car and found two whiteish tubes in the starter wires, fusible links? Am I also to assume that you do not open these up and replace a fuse inside but cut these out and splice in new units? may be the 3" of bare wire in front of one of them is part of the prob. Thanks again
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You don't open them up nor do you splice in a new one. You have to get new wires with new fusible links, and replace the whole stretch.
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Sounds like you've got a 'dead-short' somewhere...most likely a ground wire hooked up incorrectly. Leave battery wire off and recheck all engine compartment connenctions with a good electrical schematic diagram for your car. My guess is that you have something wired wrong at the starter. [I hope it wasn't the starter that was smoking.]
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Racer
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From: Forrest City Ar
not stater smoking jsut some BS hood light or somthing but this morning the gods are smiling on me cause power is back but stater not turnning over 7T1vette do you know where black wire from stater harness goes? it has big connector so it's got to be either Hot stater post or ground
