Name that blown part!!!
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Name that blown part!!!
Mustang wouldnt start, so I assume the battery is dead. No accessories, nothin. So, I hook up the jumper cables from my crx to my mustang, lots of sparks. Didnt like that and how warm the cables got quickly, so I was going up to unplug the stang, and all the sudden theres a loud pop and a lot of smoke.... its something just behind the battery. What could've gone wrong?
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Originally Posted by Lil Ze
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My guess would be............ you smoked a fusable link in one of the wires that comes off your starter solenoid that is mounted behind the battery on the fender. (fusable link looks like a tootsie roll) just fallow each wire off the solenoid till you see the link and try to determine if one of them is melbatoast. One might be grounding out on somthing and that caused the sparks. I had a simular problem and when the wire grounded out it fried my alternator.
Just a thought, could be somthing else but its worth a look.
Just a thought, could be somthing else but its worth a look.
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Originally posted by xTroublex
My guess would be............ you smoked a fusable link in one of the wires that comes off your starter cylinoid that is mounted behind the battery on the fender. (fusable link looks like a tootsie roll) just fallow each wire off the cylynoid till you see the link and try to determine if one of them is melbatoast. One might be grounding out on somthing and that caused the sparks. I had a simular problem and when the wire grounded out it fried my alternator.
Just a thought, could be somthing else but its worth a look.
My guess would be............ you smoked a fusable link in one of the wires that comes off your starter cylinoid that is mounted behind the battery on the fender. (fusable link looks like a tootsie roll) just fallow each wire off the cylynoid till you see the link and try to determine if one of them is melbatoast. One might be grounding out on somthing and that caused the sparks. I had a simular problem and when the wire grounded out it fried my alternator.
Just a thought, could be somthing else but its worth a look.
This really has me pissed off.
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Originally Posted by Lil Ze
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Yo, Nick...you didn't cross the cables to the wrong poles and explode a battery, did you? Symptoms of this include sparks, hot cables, loud noises, varying size holes in battery, dripping, smoking liquid (H2SO4) dripping down fender well, block and occasionally the face.
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Originally posted by DrDirt
Yo, Nick...you didn't cross the cables to the wrong poles and explode a battery, did you? Symptoms of this include sparks, hot cables, loud noises, varying size holes in battery, dripping, smoking liquid (H2SO4) dripping down fender well, block and occasionally the face.
Yo, Nick...you didn't cross the cables to the wrong poles and explode a battery, did you? Symptoms of this include sparks, hot cables, loud noises, varying size holes in battery, dripping, smoking liquid (H2SO4) dripping down fender well, block and occasionally the face.
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Originally Posted by Lil Ze
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Well the unit right behind the battery is the SOLENOID (damn me and my decent spelling skills 
) Sometimes they will kinda weld themselves in the "on" position which would put a huge drain on the battery causing lots of sparks. A new SOLENOID costs about $8 at any auto parts store. May want to drop one in and see if the problem still persists. The problem with hunting down fusible links is that they look like normal wires on the outside but may be burnt on the inside . I'd swap the SOLENOID first and see if that helps.
) Sometimes they will kinda weld themselves in the "on" position which would put a huge drain on the battery causing lots of sparks. A new SOLENOID costs about $8 at any auto parts store. May want to drop one in and see if the problem still persists. The problem with hunting down fusible links is that they look like normal wires on the outside but may be burnt on the inside . I'd swap the SOLENOID first and see if that helps.
