Fusible link ????
HAHAHA yes because thats what everyone said to you. Do what you want with your car man BUT a fuse or circuit breaker is by FAR easier to replace than a melted section of wire should it become necessary.
I appreciate and respect your advice more than you know.
I read every post in this thread to my friend who owns the car and he made the call to use the FL. I have no problem using a fuse but ultimately it was his call.
The crazy thing is, I have no clue what took out the FL in the first place. I haven’t found a bad wire or anything else on this car anywhere and I’ve been digging through its guts for months now.
My friend has no idea either as he bought this barely rolling turd (actually it’s not a bad car it just wasn’t taken care of very well and as far as we can tell it has been sitting since somewhere around 1990) to make a street/strip car out of (more on the strip side of things) and we are this >< close to firing this pig off. Were it not for a leaky fuel pump (yes I sold him a GOOD used pump that I inspected and tested and somehow the diaphragm in the pump was torn…me thinks my friend was “checking it out”, took it apart, tore the damned thing, put it back together and then not tell me what he did…isn’t that what friends do lol???) it would have fired up last night. I say that about the pump because it was on maybe, MAYBE 5 seconds and he shut the pump off (I never even saw pressure on the gauge…hmmmmm) and says “I smell fuel”!
I’m thinking WTF?? I have known this dude since 1982 and he is nose blind, can’t smell **** if it was sitting on his head. So methinks he screwed it up and rather than tell me he just let it slide.
At any rate, neither one of us has a clue if when when put power to the system the first time if the FL was already toast and we never caught it or what. We just don’t know.
FWIW, when I do my own car this winter I will be removing the FL and using a fuse just because of this thread.
So I thank everyone for their responses. I didn’t ignore them. I listened. I just couldn’t get my friend to do it.
