Fuse box, need help

spoolin7m

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Jan 18, 2006
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Just got a rebuild put in my 89 Turbo. Just a few minor things needed to crank it. The main thing that I can't seem to find anywhere is a relay. It is not labeled on the top of the fuse cover box, but it's the one on the far left of the fuse box under the hood. There are some wires that need to be ran into it but I don't know where to find this fuse or its purpose.

So I snapped some pictures of the missing relay yesterday. From the people that I’ve talked to thus far, most claim that there was never a relay in that location to begin with. I even went to Toyota to get it figured out, and all they could do was pull up the location of the fuse box itself. I’m fairly positive that there was a relay there before, I just seemed to have misplaced or lost it during the rebuild. If I remember correctly, it was a big relay that had tabs coming out of the bottom of it, where the wires were bolted in. I’m also fairly certain that these relays were only used on the turbo models.

Attached are a few pics of what I’m referring to. It is the blank space on the far left side of the fuse box. Also, I tried to take a picture of the wires that I assume run to the relay (there are some that we twisted together during troubleshooting).

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It's the wires twisted together and the other two with the eyelit connector on the end that we can't figure out where they're supposed to go. When we run a test wire from the three spliced together wires to the positive side of the battery, there is power.

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All the fuses already have wires ran to them and that far left open slot is what I'm talking about. the abs fuse is missing in the picture but that's in now so that's not it.

Any information on the purpose or name of this relay, the correct wiring, or where to find one would be greatly appreciated.
 

spoolin7m

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I'm fairly certain there was something there before. I went to a junk yard a while back and saw one in a turbo car identical to mine. I didn't grab it though because at the time I thought I still had it. If there isn't what are those wires supposed to run to?
 

spoolin7m

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Hmm, that's weird... Maybe it changed in 89? The one that I saw in the junk yard was bone stock and I have no idea what that thing is. Can someone with the 89-92 turbo MKIII please take a look under their hoods and let me know if there is any fusible link in that spot? PLEASE
 

metaphysico

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I checked both my 89s and a friends, 87 and all 3 have a fuseable link wire there, its not a hole like that. It runs from the smaller wire on batt+ across to that fuseable link wire, then it goes to god only knows where, I think am2. I just had to replace the fuseable link on my friends 87 so its still fresh in my memory. Now given all 4 of the ones I have access to are na-t to the harness is na, maybe thats the difference, but I know my 87 turbo did have just the hole there and no fuseable link wire.

Btw the wire just looks like someone jammed a wire into where a fuse should go, there are several types of cars that use the setup and I always hated it lol.

Also to fill in the wiring issue the wires that are twisted together, the one comes from the battery power, the other two go into the fuse pannel, they are all fuseable link wires. Check for power on them and power on your fuses to see if any is wire is blown or not getting a connection. Normally there is a metal connector that connects the 3 wires together then blue tape covering the connection.

As for you pictures not showing you moved them in the folder and the link is broken, looks like you moved it to a folder in photobucked named jhawk851. Just for future reference.
http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab81/jayhawk851/102_0410.jpg
http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/102_0410.jpg
 
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