Toasted my fusible link last night!
Damn. You don't want to hear this, I would untape the harness and inspect it. Typical for conductors to melt insulation and fuse together.
In the early 70s not long after I bought my favorite car
Some girls in a Datsun "aholed" it as I was stopped in traffic. "They didn't see it!!!"
Anyhow the dealer, McCune Chrysler Plymouth in National City who hosed it up permanently, "gave" me a clapped out loaner car, a slant Valiant. Bald tires, no brakes, it was 'quite a deal'
One cold morning in San Diego (Miramar) I had started it up, going to get off work. My Chief came in and gave me the Columbo act. "Say, is that loaner supposed to be squealing and smoking and making noise?"
The alternator had stopped and the belt was squealing and slipping. I shut it off, for no good reason loosened up the alternator and wiggled it with a rag AND IT SHORTED INTERNALLY as it turned out a diode had fallen inside the unit!!!!!
So I stood there and watched, as the harness went fzzzzssssssiiiiii......z.z.zzzzzzzzzzzzppphhhhhffffssszzzzzzzsssssssiiiiitttttttt ..........ssssiiiiitt!!! AND THEN BLEW THE FUSE LINK!!!!!
So I called the Dealer. And told them to send a wrecker. And bring out another loaner. And they sent the wetback with a jumper battery in his trunk......And he looked under the hood......And he looked at me......And he said "This thing is all burned up.........We are gonna need a wrecker!!!!"
Damn. You don't want to hear this, I would untape the harness and inspect it. Typical for conductors to melt insulation and fuse together.
In the early 70s not long after I bought my favorite car
Some girls in a Datsun "aholed" it as I was stopped in traffic. "They didn't see it!!!"
Anyhow the dealer, McCune Chrysler Plymouth in National City who hosed it up permanently, "gave" me a clapped out loaner car, a slant Valiant. Bald tires, no brakes, it was 'quite a deal'
One cold morning in San Diego (Miramar) I had started it up, going to get off work. My Chief came in and gave me the Columbo act. "Say, is that loaner supposed to be squealing and smoking and making noise?"
The alternator had stopped and the belt was squealing and slipping. I shut it off, for no good reason loosened up the alternator and wiggled it with a rag AND IT SHORTED INTERNALLY as it turned out a diode had fallen inside the unit!!!!!
So I stood there and watched, as the harness went fzzzzssssssiiiiii......z.z.zzzzzzzzzzzzppphhhhhffffssszzzzzzzsssssssiiiiitttttttt ..........ssssiiiiitt!!! AND THEN BLEW THE FUSE LINK!!!!!
So I called the Dealer. And told them to send a wrecker. And bring out another loaner. And they sent the wetback with a jumper battery in his trunk......And he looked under the hood......And he looked at me......And he said "This thing is all burned up.........We are gonna need a wrecker!!!!"