ok well you will all will be happy to hear that i finaly got my drive shaft and my car is on the road…was on the road … for a total of 4 hours befor i lost all power and the car went dead
i 1st thought that the power wire i ran from my trunk to the engine bay grounded out soime where throught the car but its not the wire i ran
so now i need help
ok heres what i got my battery is in my trunk and i ran 0ga up to the fuse box were the battery was i put a 100amp fuse 8 inches from the battery in the trunk
when i use my multi meter on the fuse box under the hood with no power from the battery attached to the box i get a 12 volt signal which means the fuse box that is suppose to my + is grounding out … i tracked the wire that is a neg ( its a thick white/ blue) and it goes to a plug on the back side of the inside underdash fusebox . now after checking my relays and all fuse ( non of them were blown ) i found out that if i pulled out the hazard, room light, and stop light fuses i no longer get a ground signal at the engine bay fuse box if i put any of these 3 back in i get the neg signal again. the hard thing is i cant get the under dash fuse box apart with out breaking it open so i cant find out what wire or wires are the problem.
so at 1st im thinging well its just a pos wire gorunding out right…
but if i grounded out a pos wire it would have blown a fuse at the under dash fuse box and not the fuse at battery in the trunk …( thats 4 fuses it past through to get to the one in the trunk)
2nd i thought well my power wire from the bay to the trunk grounded out
but why would the fuse at the battey go and not the one at the engine bay fuse box too and if it did ground out y is there a neg wire running from the under dash fuse box to the engine bay box geting fused in in 2 spots i need some help i was up till 4 am after draging my car back from yellowhead and 121st yesterday and im still at it
I just relocated my battery too, so maybe I can help.
(About the bold) Shouldn’t you have run this wire directly to the starter and not to the fuse box, or did I misread that?
Second, did you ground the battery in the trunk?
It was a little hard to understand the rest, it just sounds like you over-did the wiring.
All I did was ran some 0ga welding wire (wicked thick sheething) to my starter, along with that, I wired those two wires/plugs that normally are on the positive battery terminal to the contact of the starter. Then I grounded out the battery in the trunk. And lastly checked that all the engine grounds were clean and solid.
Hopefully that helped (might not) but that’s all I did.
well my wireing goes from the + battery to a distro block under the hood … from there it goes to the alt, starter and to the under hood fuse box… and yes it is grounded in the trunk in 3 spots
now im no longer having the no pwer problem now every once in a while the car stutters and stalls …power and every thing is still on but the engine stops …when i turn the car off and start it again it starts right away with no problem …im thinking it could be my air/ fuel mix i think im not getting enough air? any comments or help?
When i did mine i just ran the + wire from the battery to the original battery clamp in the engine bay and grounded the battery to the back spare tire bolt.
That’ll work, but if you unravel the loom that the power wire is encased in, all it does is run to your starter.
So running 0ga from battery to starter >>>>>> running 0ga to wire in engine compartment and then to a 4ga(?) to the starter.
Kinda counter productive, that’s all.[/quote]I havent had any problems with it…and that is the way the stock system works too. I get 14.4V all the time.