The Funk Did I Do

For the past week, 2 weeks, whatever, I relocated things in the engine bay (battery + tie down, Power Steering Reservior, Engine Bay Relay Block and Radiator overflow).

It started last weekend. Now, all of a sudden, the only power I get, is headlights. No running lights, brakes, dash lights, no nothing. It keeps blowing the Ignition Fuse (located on the drivers side kick panel) but I cant for the life of me trace where this is coming from.

I had the battery hooked up incorrectly, switched it, still nothing. Checked grounds, checked wires (for breaks, frays, ect) and everything checks out. The relay block in the engine bay is fine (no blown fuses) There's a break somewhere in the system but, I cannot finger out where.

Can anyone shed some light on this?Im Stuck...

Edited: 12/15/2006 4:16:44 PM by TiMe_1

Grounds, grounds, and more grounds. Check them ALL and make sure they have a good clean surface to ground to.

You also might not be gettin enough current from the battery up to the fuse block. If you didnt run big enough wire from the battery to the fuse block the voltage drops.

Originally posted by TiMe_1



Grounds, grounds, and more grounds. Check them ALL and make sure they have a good clean surface to ground to.

fuses too =) check them all.

^^what he said, you got ground issues

sounds like u have a directshort some where check and see what fuses are blowing and trace down the wires

ya deffinetly what he said^^^^ i did the same thing and it turned out to be a blown fuse and under it was 2 wires touching. check them out.

The only blown fuse, is and was the Ignition fuse. I only moved a total of 3 grounds (not saying that because the number is small, that you guys are wrong) so...

Its also hard to trace the wires to it because the previous owner has EVERYTHING wrapped in the black wire loom...

CHECK YOUR POWER TO YOUR UNDER HOOD FUSE AND RELAY CENTER AND MAKE SURE ALL OF THE STUFF YOU MOVED IN CLEARING MAKE SURE YOU DID NOT MISTAKE A POWER FOR A GROUND OR VISE VERSA AND LOOK FOR ALL FUSEABLE LINKS GET A TEST LIGHT AND CHECK FOR POWER WERE IT STOPS AND STARTS

^^best way to check right there^^ u have to test every wire you moved/extended. sucks cause it keeps blowing fuses, hard to test with no current. i'd say do a continuity test to ground and see which wire(s) are grounded and shouldnt be. if you moved the stuff should simplify your search cause you know what you moved. i spent 2 hrs tracing wires to figure out why the blinkers on my friends truck didnt work. i modified every wire in his truck relocating and cleaning stuff up. found out it was 2 wires i switched when i connected. 2 out of a few hundred isnt bad. i just followed the current and found where it stopped, as was mentioned b4. sucks but has to be done. good luck

Edited: 12/16/2006 4:13:13 PM by truck action

I had the battery hooked up incorrectly. Do you mean you put + through the ground side? If so you probably fired one of the circuts, or a ground some where is now burnt through grounding out!!