my electrical journey

northwestsupra

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ok so im very very lost in the electrical in the car now. my mission is just to get interior power. what i have hooked up

ground cable to engine and fender
ground for ecu

alternator power
battery to starter
brown connector on starter


test i have done.
checked battery voltage 12.3V

i did a conductuity test on under hood fuse box fuses, they are all showing as grounds, but nothing on positive.
i checked voltage on fuses, nothing.
so i basically gave up at that point, i jumped the radio fuse inside the car, because thats what i wanted anyway. my police scanner turned on but radio didnt, i figured this is because it has ignition power wire hooked up. so i jumped both the ign. and raidio. and then the scanner turned off. well then i noticed that when shaking the scanner and radio that the clock would dim and come back on.

so now im starting to think wtf.

so i hook the battery to the charger to a 12v charge while im trying this crap out.

i tried to jump the ign and radio again i got the ign jumped and then get ready............. the window wipers turned on. and may i put that scared the shit out of me because there arent any wipers on them lol so it was metal to glass so all i hear EEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR. lol so im like wtf. then i jumped just the radio and all the interior lights turned on and guess what, the wipers. and may i put the wipers are on the off position at the switch the whole time.

am i missing somthing here? or is there just that bad of a short
 

Moy

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Trevor, the fuses control multiple items in the car. The radio fuse controls the radio and about 5 (or more) other things. It's a wiring issue, and very well could be a broken fusible link(s)
 

northwestsupra

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yes i know what a fuse does, and yes i understand jumping fuses are not and you risk major damage or even fire to a system. but i guess i forgot to mention that my jumper is a fused jumper so i can just pull out the fuse and put it into the jumper to test that individual setup.

i will check the fuseable link somtime this week. try to find breaks if all else fails. i have a multimeter i've done electrical classes and i understand the concept of how the car works, this aint my first electrical job
 

dumbo

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lol Theres no NEED to jump a fuse out. Either the fuse is blown, and the problem is elsewhere, or the fuse is good and the problem is esewhere. Period.

So there is no power to anything when your not jumping stuff correct?
 

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northwestsupra;1497974 said:
i have a multimeter i've done electrical classes and i understand the concept of how the car works, this aint my first electrical job

No offense guy but if you really understood this stuff you wouldn't be lost over something so simple. You'd also be using the schematic to resolve it. I won't even go into the "conductuity" thing. Just be careful...
 

northwestsupra

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not taking any offense, but i looked at the schematic of the car, and im sitting here looking at the harness routing, and all that crap and every gets all close up in the pictures and makes it kinda tough to make anything out. wiring diagrams are easy as hell to read for me but yet im just trying to get 1 thing accomplished, ignition power for interior power. thats all. and the only reason why i wanted ignition power was to test out the dvd player and get it setup for when its done. but other than that i will look at the link. and take a look at it in a couple of days. im working on a couple cars atm :p