like the title says, are there any typical places i can check? the car did have an alarm in it that was wired to a bunk of junk. i think i got it all. there wasnt a problem until i tried hooking up a cd player. i was wiring the 12v switch from the ignition wire under the column. it was fine until i drove my car home last night, it died.
(pulled sterio) today i had 4 or 5 blown fuses. replaced all, but blew after driving it for like 30 seconds.

replaced it again, and it blew as soon as i swithced it to 'start'

any ideas where to check?

 

Well, at the risk of stating the obvious....sounds like you have a grounded hot wire somewhere.

Check the wiring that you used to power the stereo, and the ones around the coil if you might have changed anything up there. I'm pretty sure its got to be a power wire that's grounding out, so it shouldn't be too hard to track it down.

Good luck man!

 

sounds like second gen

 

nothing around the copil looks out of place, and i removed the sterio, and capped off the wires. so nothing should be shorting there.

 

Hmm, better pull up a wiring diagram and see what all feeds off of the engine fuse...

 

i did, all the wires from that fuse are black and yellow, or so ive been told, so i hilighted them in my haynes. jut a matter of looking, i will once it dries up. stupifd rain. stupid no space in the barn.

 

Hey, I've got room in my garage... It would only take you what, like 195 fuses to get here? LOL. Bring Heinies...

 

it snowing, i cant believe its snowing. i need to get my 84 outta the way so i can get the 85 in the garage.

 

Yeah, its snowing so hard right now I can barely see across the street! Michigan sucks man...

 

im a retard, it turns out it wasnt the engine fuse, it was the one for th rear wiper.....now i have to find all of those wires in my haynes, and one got any info that iwll help me find that?

EDIT: that was incoherent rambling. let me refraise my question. does anyone know what all runs from the rear wiper fuse?