97 k1500 ecsb z71 5.7 60e
Had a lot of issues recently with starting. Mainly eating starters for stupid reasons.
Finally got a brand new one instead of crappy remans, new power with from battery to starter, new ad244 alternator and charge wire as well. Drove for a month happily after all this.
One fine day after work I go to start it and nothing. Won't click, crank, nothing. Do some poking around. Find IGN A (40amp maxi) popped.
Figuring it was just a hiccup I replaced it with a spare. Popped that. Out of spares I used a few other non-essential ones and they all blew. Including the 60amp abs fuse (those things fail in a spectacular fashion I must say)
So I have a dead short somewhere. According to my diagrams, the maxi fuse supplies a red heavy gauge wire that goes into the firewall and up the column to the ignition switch.
I replaced the switch already based on some input and the ****** remote start install job. (Remote start has not yet been reinstalled) still pops the fuse.
I was able to disconnect the trigger wire from the starter solenoid to isolate that entire side of the circuit and jumped the starter. It got the truck home and back into the garage. But after messing with it for almost a month now, I can't seem to figure out why the hell I'm blowing this fuse.
None of my continuity checks are showing broken wires. I even jammed a wire in where the fuse was and hit crank to see what wire smoked. It blew the wire clean off the fuse position. So that didn't work. I'm lost. How the hell do I go about diagnosing this thing without pulling the engine, trans, and dash out?
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Tyler/T-Unit
Had a lot of issues recently with starting. Mainly eating starters for stupid reasons.
Finally got a brand new one instead of crappy remans, new power with from battery to starter, new ad244 alternator and charge wire as well. Drove for a month happily after all this.
One fine day after work I go to start it and nothing. Won't click, crank, nothing. Do some poking around. Find IGN A (40amp maxi) popped.
Figuring it was just a hiccup I replaced it with a spare. Popped that. Out of spares I used a few other non-essential ones and they all blew. Including the 60amp abs fuse (those things fail in a spectacular fashion I must say)
So I have a dead short somewhere. According to my diagrams, the maxi fuse supplies a red heavy gauge wire that goes into the firewall and up the column to the ignition switch.
I replaced the switch already based on some input and the ****** remote start install job. (Remote start has not yet been reinstalled) still pops the fuse.
I was able to disconnect the trigger wire from the starter solenoid to isolate that entire side of the circuit and jumped the starter. It got the truck home and back into the garage. But after messing with it for almost a month now, I can't seem to figure out why the hell I'm blowing this fuse.
None of my continuity checks are showing broken wires. I even jammed a wire in where the fuse was and hit crank to see what wire smoked. It blew the wire clean off the fuse position. So that didn't work. I'm lost. How the hell do I go about diagnosing this thing without pulling the engine, trans, and dash out?
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Tyler/T-Unit