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fuse link melted! why???

Started by cudadude013, March 24, 2008, 10:17:28 PM

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cudadude013

I just bought a new engine harness from year one. I plugged it into the bulkhead, hooked it up to the ballast resistor, ignition, starter relay, and alternator. when I hooked up the battery to the fuse link just melted. Anyone know why? Did I just waste $130? :-\

Ghoste

Most likely a short someplace, you're sure everything is connected perfectly?  On the plus side, if the problem does turn out to be in the harness, YO has a good return policy.
You didn't touch anything under the dash did you, like the ammeter?

1969chargerrtse

Sure sounds like a short and if you hooked everything up correct I would think it has to be in the harness?  We have an old trick in the elevator business for trying to find shorts.  If you were to take a wire from that link to ground with a 12v bulb connected you would see the bulb go bright as it is shorted to ground.  If you pulled off one connection of the items you connected to, one a a time the bulb would dim when the shorted connection was disconnected from the item, alternator etc...  Not sure if thats easy understand, but it's how I find shorts without blowing tons of fuses doing it.  If the old harness had no issues but was just old, I'd return it.   Good Luck.
This car was sold many years ago to somebody in Wisconsin. I now am retired and living in Florida.