Like a dumbass, i connected the battery backwards and blew my main fuse, the 80 amp black one. (actaully, mazd'as the idiot for marking the positive terminal BLACK) anyway, i've mangled the damn fuse trying to get it out... is there some sort of goddamn trick to it or something? the rest of the fuses come out easily, but it seems like the main was superglued in there!

thanks in advance.

 

there are 10mm bolts on the sides. Use a flate bladed screw driver to pop them out.

 

ha ha, this one gets the best of us! you need to lift the plastic tab on the sides of the fuse and remove two 10mm (I think) bolts in the front, and one (I think) in the rear. in other words, that bitch is bolted in!

 

Your not the first to put the battery in backwards...

 

lol, i did the same thing

 

Yeah, I hooked it mine up backwards and I had the starter hooked up wrong so when I hooked the battery up the engine started cranking

 

Thanks guys. Solved all of my problems. Freaking.. nothing can ever be consistant, eh? Anyway, yeah, replaced that, got the car running, and one of my fuel lines is leaking somewhere... yay, more problems!

 

yea, ive done it too. didnt blow the fuse though.

 

I almost did that the other day.

 

a word of warning, your ECU may be toast. Not that I know that from experience or anything...

 

Yep its bolted in, its not going ANYWHERE unless you take out the bolts...

I wonder what the idea was behind that anyway?

 

its masda whats the reasoning behind half the stuff they do. they do it just becouse they can.


ej