Anyone hook up a battery backwards?
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Anyone hook up a battery backwards?
Not to long ago i bought an 88 rx n/a, but when i went to pick it up it needed a battery. So i bought on and proceded to install it. We were in a hurry and accitentally hooked it up backwards. Now it wont run or start. It turns over and over, but wont run. If any of you have actually done the battery thing backwards, could you tell me what it broke? Thanks, btw i got it at an auction for $550, and a friend had driven it about a month or so before. So it did run recently.
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All the fuses are good, the 80a fuse is the main fuse on the car, w/o it absolutly nothing will work. Everything workrs but it wont actually start.
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I actually just remember somthing, the main fuse wasnt actually a fuse, it was a broken fuse someone had put in place of the fuse, any ideas what it actually would have fried? Maybe the ecu?
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Sounds like your problem is solved but for the next guy that is searching the forum. My brother did this to his car and after replacing the coils and ecu, it started again.
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Could it just be that the engine is flooded??? Does it fully turn over? or does it just crank? Hopefully it's just an engine flood! It might sound stupid, but it might be easier to try pulling the ignition fuse (or whatever it's called), and if it doesn't work.... rule it out!
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Ok, i have a friend with a 86 n/a and we swapped ecu's and his car started right up, so now its not the ecu. I'll have to check out the coils next it looks like. It's still possible that its a compression problem i've been hoping it wasnt but looks like less and less things could be causing this problem. Any more ideas??? Thanks
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if u hooked the batt the wrong way in would the car over really well cheack the the all the fuse and fuseable links and the alternater if u havent done any damage u lucky!!
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Did I read this right? The main fuse had already been blown, so someone jumped it (i.e. no fuse at all), and then he installed the battery backwards?
Sounds to me like it may have killed the ECU or coils. Just in case, I'd check all of the other fuses, and try a de-flooding.
Good luck!
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Sounds to me like it may have killed the ECU or coils. Just in case, I'd check all of the other fuses, and try a de-flooding.
Good luck!
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I'm very sure its not the ecu, but i wish it would have been, but now it seems like the coils could be next to be checked, how would i go about checking the coils?
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Whoa! After checking what others have said so far I would also suspect the diodes in the altenator. But a "bridge" where the 80A SHOULD be? Man, sounds like that thing could have came WITH an electical problem to begin with! And reverse biasing those diodes sure did not help any. So could be a very interestin "oppertunity" to learn all about the rx-7 wiring. Good luck to you!