please help, i fried a wire!! alt?

TonyzPony · 05-20-2002, 05:24 PM

I had the same problem when I was chaging a battery in the dark in the middle of the night. We accidently hooked it up backwards and it sparked. When we turned it around and got it in right the alternator was not charging and for the longest time I couldn't figure out why. It wasn't the battery or alternator or battery cables. Finally I tracked down the problem. I blew one of the fuse wires. I will bet this is your problem. You can't see that it is burnt, you have to just start grabbing wires comming off the fender and streching them a little. You will know when you find the break when you pull and strech out the wire insulation and will be able to tell the wire underneth burnt out. When I was told to check this by a senior Ford mechanic I found the wire in under 5 minutes. Just cut out the section back to good wire (about 4 or 5 inches), take it down to the auto store and tell then you want fuse wire in the same guage. Then just splice it back in with the approriate crimps. Problem solved.

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05-20-2002, 05:24 PM	#1
TonyzPony Registered Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4	I had the same problem when I was chaging a battery in the dark in the middle of the night. We accidently hooked it up backwards and it sparked. When we turned it around and got it in right the alternator was not charging and for the longest time I couldn't figure out why. It wasn't the battery or alternator or battery cables. Finally I tracked down the problem. I blew one of the fuse wires. I will bet this is your problem. You can't see that it is burnt, you have to just start grabbing wires comming off the fender and streching them a little. You will know when you find the break when you pull and strech out the wire insulation and will be able to tell the wire underneth burnt out. When I was told to check this by a senior Ford mechanic I found the wire in under 5 minutes. Just cut out the section back to good wire (about 4 or 5 inches), take it down to the auto store and tell then you want fuse wire in the same guage. Then just splice it back in with the approriate crimps. Problem solved.