I'm in the final stages of putting my 83 GSL together. Somehow, in the midst of the removal and reassembly process, I blew a fusible link.. Headlights wouldn't go up or turn on. They worked fine until very recently. No problem, I still have all the fusible links from my donor. I switched all three fusible links (after removing the negative cable), making sure that they are in the right order (brown, black, brown). I put the negative cable back on and one of the brown fusible links starts to smoke. I immediately pull the cable back off and come to the professionals for help.. What happened? and how can I fix it?

 

You have a power short to ground somewhere.

 

I just noticed that I had the headlight up switch on when I reconnected the battery.. Could that cause it to smoke? I'm fairly sure that I have no bare wires to ground.. I double checked all the wiring when I had it stripped down..

 

I would not think so. Did the fuse blow, and is the battery connect correclty. sounds stupid but my dad put one im one of my cars backwards and poped the link.

 

No.. everything is connected correctly.. Car runs fine and everything else works.. Or at least, did, before I swapped links.. haven't reconnected the battery yet.. I know about that battery thing.. My dad did that when I was growing up and it exploded in his face.. Nasty burns...