damn this wire! (HELP!)

[Tae361]

Well I hooked the battery terminals up in the proper order with the positive feed from the alternator going to the battery and the yellow/black wire from the negative to the ground. I turned on the ignition to my car and POP 15A EFI fuse blows again regardless.

This is really getting to the point to where I have absolutely zero idea what to do... Should I start by replacing the fuel pump control relay and fuel pump resistor (listed under the 15A EFI fuse). And what is the "Circuit Opening Relay TCCS ECU" could this also be a vital part that is blowing the fuse?

 

[Jaguar_5]

I don't want to sound like an ass, but I think you might want to take the car to a shop...

I mean you're obviously quite confused by all of this, in your post you're wondering why the cable was hot? When clearly all you had hooked up to the battery positive was the alternator, twice, and the starter...

The cable isn't hot, or did you try to use a multimeter to test it against ground? You're just assuming it is hot because when you connect it to positive (which is what makes it hot!) a fuse blows. Well then you have a short, something else is wired wrong

I'm not sure why it takes this many posts to finally convince you that needed to be hooked up to the + terminal

It looks like your alternator is jerry-rigged, on my car that capacitor is on the back, and I only have one wire feeding the alternator

Starting to throw parts at it is NOT the solution either!

 

[Tae361]

First of all, i don't have the money or available transportation to get the car to a shop.

Secondly, i'd rather do this myself. Its not hard to forget where wires go when its my first swap and i only had a couple days per week to work on it. I don't give up and im here to learn from my mistakes so i have the knowledge for future reference.

I know now that my wires are correctly hooked up, but the fact of why this fuse keeps blowing is what i'm facing. I was assuming when i did have everything hooked up wrong i could have shorted or blown one of the resistors or relays in series with that fuse.

 

[CyFi6]

just unhook everything from the alternator and leave it hanging there, dont let the wires touch anything, and see if you can turn the key on without blowing a fuse, if you can you know something is wrong near the alt, just try to rule things out.