robsayers

Due to lack of sleep, stupidity and color blindness... I managed to put a battery in backwards in my 83 gs. As soon as I hooked the terminals up smoke starts coming from this little box on the strut tower. I dont have a pic, but its a small black rectangular box with 2 or 3 wires coming in, and on the back there are 3 wires which loop back in the the box.

I know the battery is good, as I put it back in the car I took it out of and it worked fine. But once I did hook it up correctly in the 7, no dash lights or anything came on when I turned the key on, its like there is no battery in there at all.

So I'm hoping all I did was fry this little box thing... whatever it's called. All fuses under the dash were fine... so I dont know what else it could be. Any ideas?

rotariesrule

seen that before. fixed a friends by changing those wires that loop back. those wires are acting like fuses. you can get them at a junk yard but test them with an ohm meter before you buy them.

robsayers

oh really? cool.

do gsl-se's have that as well? I'm picking up a rolling chassis in a week

thanks!

BLKTOPTRVL

Fusable Links. If you replace them, you should be fine.

Dom

If you don't have a fusible link on you, just strip the covering off the wire and twist the wires back together.

jimmdog

Dude Youre Fucked!!!! That little box was made from sacrificed alien fetus Good luck never been fixed before just go back to riding your skate board youll be much happier with your mode of trans port
Just kiddin had to give some body a hard time your number came up do what every one else said you should be OK

V8kilr

Now would be a perfect time to change them.

Use some circuit breakers or buy some big fuses that are made for car audio installation and put them in their place.

Often times when your break lights fade and other weird electrical things happen like brake light comming on for no reason and such, thats usally the culprit.

Consider it a calling and change them out to somthing better while you still have a really good reason to.

robsayers

rofl, but I suck at skatboarding!

robsayers

Interesting, what size fuses should I use?