wtf.... can this be fixed

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good evening most of u may know me.. im here for advise on how to fix my issue



ON wednesday 5/30/2012 i was driving from a friends house here in Nc. i was following a garbage truck out of his apartment complex. i drive over a speed bump and give my car some gas. and OUT of the BLUE my car dies. i try to start it back up again and nothing so i put it in reverse and i coast back down the hill into a parking spot i pop the hood, come to find out the battery terminals were covered in sluffer and i disconnect the car battery and i noticed that my window was down. I reconnect the battery and the car began to smoke and i disconnected it again. i manage to save my baby from going up in flames. i looked at the car and checked the fuse box. nothing melted. The wire that burned and ruined the car from starting was the positive terminal from the battery that connected to the fuse box on the back side. and the wire from the fuse box to the injector wire
i managed to save i have attached pictures. can someone please HELP..

fuel injector line

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injector terminal connectore

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the positive cable from the battery

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Kendrick, did you try to reconnect that positive terminal since you moved the wire for the injectors? Perhaps you had a bare spot on one of the wires. I would think it would be easy to find the bad wire. It must be a direct short to kill the car. Good luck!!
 
i havent messed with it since yesterday i will tomo would a bent ground wire cause that?
 
There is a direct short to ground somewhere near your fuse box.

Do not connect your B+ until you find and identify the short circuit.

From the looks of things, the short is before the fuse box and the
Positive battery post.


I'd like to see more pictures at different angles.


-Ren
 
ren-

i am clueless on where to find the short to ground on the positive battery terminal.
 
Samething happened to me when I first bought my car...can't tell from your pics but my wire was burned because it was spliced into the alternator to battery wire and it comes out to one 16gauge wire into the fuse box...so thinking that the alternator provides too much amperage to the fuse box for a little 16 gauge wire I had the injector wire singled out into the fuse box and alternator wire replaced with a one piece 4 gauge I believe, going also into the fuse box
 
cobra can u take pictures so i can see what your talking about and so i can fix my baby
 
Now that I think about it, it might have been two puny wires like yours and what happened was the little wire that is spliced from the big alternator wire gets hot and then it burns back going through the rest of the puny injector wires burning them too...did what I did and separate them making sure the alternator wire is a big one piece
 
cobra

- the way you said about separating the wires far as going to the fuse box will i need the alternator wire and the injector wires both going to the fuse box or the alternator to the battery ....? im confused im trying to understand what u explained
 
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Injector wire? WTH are you talking about?

Hire a mechanic or else you will be making the "So I fixed my 4awg injector wire and my car burned to the ground" thread next.
 
The little wire was fixed with a 16 gauge wire spliced into it and I believe I wired the 4 gauge alternator wire straight to the battery instead
 
hey i honestly dont know what it is.... and laser instead of talking :q:q:q:q help out man. but what do i expect from u u always say a smart ass comment but ur very knowledgeable about the mark viii
 
K-FAN said:
hey i honestly dont know what it is.... and laser instead of talking :q:q:q:q help out man. but what do i expect from u u always say a smart ass comment but ur very knowledgeable about the mark viii
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crappy pictures, coupled with crappy wording/nomenclature isn't gonna get you very high quality help.

Props to Cobrastar_LS8 for his attempts at helping you...
 
K-FAN said:
hey i honestly dont know what it is.... and laser instead of talking :q:q:q:q help out man. but what do i expect from u u always say a smart ass comment but ur very knowledgeable about the mark viii
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Talking chit? You dont know what you are doing or looking at. You need someone there who does or else you will burn your car down.

Sure I dont like you because you are a fuggin stroker flake but I am giving you solid advice here.
 
i understand u guys dont like me i get that but im asking how to fix my car . can u help me or not this is my only source to get to and from work..... please
 
thanks cobra ....i do have a question for bill... the 2 16ga wires can those me wires together? or would it be best to wire them separate... ?
 
I still have a gut feeling something is grounded, probably in or around the alternator. Try disconnecting everything from the alternator and then connect the battery (of course, after you've got the wires fixed)
 
Or.... You can use Volt-Ohm-Meter, Continuity Tester or Digital Multimeter if you can get a hold of one.

Does anyone have a short-circuit sniffer/detector he can borrow? :shifty:
 
wires snake all around that car. i also recommend a mechanic all it takes is one little electric screwup and its bye bye. but i would start from the battery, undo the fuse box replace + wire and ground you say you went over a bump you may have had aloose wire or a bare + wire that grounded out follow the + wire to and from starter, alternator and fuse box its a long painstaking job and may reveal nothing a qualified mechanic could hook it up to a diagnostic and find it in 5 min.you, may never find it. lots of variables, but the pos wire looked like chit and if the wire melted thats where the problem should be, when a wire grounds out especially if its high amp it will melt, quickly
 
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