[Shotimes] Can anyone solve this WEIRD problem? PLEASE HELP ME!! Thanks..

[Steve Weinrich]

Check this first:

On the starter relay, there is a smaller ring terminal/wire that has to
connect to the battery cable side of the relay.  Ths wire runs everything
else in the car except the starter motor.

If you connect it to the output side, you will get your exact symtom.

Don't ask me how I found this out :^)

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: <HomeboyNorm@aol.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>; <manunnal@hotmail.com>;
<manunnal@netheaven.com>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:37 AM
Subject: [Shotimes] Can anyone solve this WEIRD problem? PLEASE HELP ME!!
Thanks..


> Hi folks,
>
> I and my friend did an engine swap on his '89 SHO, and now we can't get
the
> lights, or anything else to work.. Not even the ignition..Absolutely DEAD!
We
> took out the high mileage long block for a lower mileage one out of a same
> month manufactured '89.. Even the same color combination..
>
> We are 99.9% sure that we had everything hooked up right (we've done SHO
> swaps before), and the battery is brand new. Yes, it is holding a full
> charge. The connections are on good and tight..I am getting 12 volts power
at
> one post of the starter relay, but not at the other...
>
> All the fuses under the driver's dashboard are not burnt out. We checked a
> few of the 'inline' fusible links in the engine bay, and every one that we
> checked looked fine. (We still don't know which fusible link is the 'main'
> fuse though).. There must be a mother of the all fusible links somewhere
in
> there that could have been shorted out..
>
> Does any one on the list know how many fusible links an '89 have in its
> engine bay, as well as which one is for what? We would like to know which
one
> is like the main one for the whole electrical system.. (My Chilton and
Probst
> books doesn't say)
>
> THE BIG QUESTION:
>
> Is there anybody who have experienced the same problem, and if so, what
was
> it?
>
> PLEASE HELP US OUT, since we have our backs up against the wall.. Big
time..
> We are about to send it out to a shop for who knows how big of a bill..
>
> Thanks, Norm
>
> '89 red/grey SHO
> '93 black/black MTX SHO
> '93 red/grey ATX SHO (parting out)
> '99 black/characol Mustang Cobra (13.68@104.6mph stock on crappy
soon-to-be
> bald tires - And a 13.72@104.2 to back it up with)
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