66DartSedan
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Okay, so I just changed my fuses, but I cannot for the life of me, take each one out without breaking them. I looked behind each fuse and theres no mechanism to push them out.
Absolutely. ...but if they're corroded in there....their gonna break anyways. ....Plastic fuse puller,its hook shaped.
Thank you. Ive made a habit of always taking off pos+ and neg- cables from the battery when i work on anything.If you're using any kind of a metal tool, disconnect the battery negative cable first.
The plastic fuse puller is the best/safest/easiest way.
No need or benefit to pull both cables, just pulling one cable does exactly the same thing: cuts power to the whole car. Always make it the negative cable—or if you have a reason to need to pull both cables, like you need to replace the battery, always pull the negative cable first, before pulling the positive cable. Conversely, always install the negative cable last, after installing the positive cable.
The reason why: If you disconnect the positive battery cable first, you're putting a wrench on a terminal that is hot with respect to virtually every piece of metal within wrench-length's reach. Swing the wrench too far, drop the wrench, sneeze and jerk the wrench, and you're looking at hundreds of amps flowing through the wrench in a big hurry. The wrench will quickly weld itself in place, your hand can turn into a handburger, and you can have a real emergency on your hands in a couple blinks of an eye.
If you disconnect the negative cable first, you only have to worry about the location of the wrench relative to the positive battery terminal. All other metal in the vicinity is in common with the ground terminal, so even if you misplace the wrench, nothing bad will happen. This is worth considering when installing the battery cable terminals: Try and clock them such that when you put a wrench on the negative terminal clamp nut, it swings in an arc that does not move the other end of the wrench towards the positive terminal.
And when replacing them, put on a dab of dielectric grease and You won't have that problem again.Okay, so I just changed my fuses, but I cannot for the life of me, take each one out without breaking them. I looked behind each fuse and theres no mechanism to push them out.
RestoParts CH30265: Fuse Adapter 1954-88 All GM Converta-Fuse | JEGSWhere did you find those?
I have one of the plastic pullers you can have. PM me your address and I will drop it in the mail on Monday.Okay, so I just changed my fuses, but I cannot for the life of me, take each one out without breaking them. I looked behind each fuse and theres no mechanism to push them out.