babyviper
20+ Year Contributor
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- Feb 12, 2003
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Mays Landing,
New Jersey
reason for replacement:
My fuseblock was is a PITA it causes me troubles by not letting my gauges, windows and sunroof work. This leads to a greater problem by unintentional speeding, running out of gas and incorrect odometer reading, so it is pretty important. I know that the fuseblock was the part that was giving me my problems because for me to get some of the acc. to work I would have to kick it and hold it(a lot a finagling with it).
my story:
My fuseblock, the fuseblock is located on the inside of the car to the left of the clutch pedal, I replaced today with a n/t one. It involved the unplugging and plugging in about 9 harnesses. There is a piece attached to the back of it that has a wire coming out of it that does not match up with the one that is in my car but they are interchangeable so I swapped it out with my old one. Hooked everything up and turned the key to notice everything was working great except for the sunroof. I turned the key to start the car and, POP! I lost all power I thought it was a major fuse but all fuses were good. I disconnected the battery and hooked it back up with everything working again but the same thing happens again, I swap the old one back in and I seem to have the same problem. I unplugged my pillar gauges, which were getting power through the turbo timer harness off of the green wire and it started right up so I left it unplugged and eventually putting it in with the fuse for the gauges. I put the fuseblock from the n/t back in and it started right up with no problem, the sunroof didn't work though and also the srs light stayed on but everything else worked fine like it should. I got to the gas station and when I was going to leave, POP! it cut off again unplugged the gauges from the fuseblock and it started up with still a small snap noise from the battery, I had to get to work so I didn't have time for investigation. On the ride to work the radio, radiator fan (which can only be turned on by turning on the a'/c which is not hooked up) and that was it.
Thoughts and solutions:
I found out the reason for the fuseblock to act in the manner that it did was, there was corrosion on the prongs where the plugs get plugged into. It was obviously coming from within the fuseblock itself so I would have to take it apart to further inspect it. The reason for the car shorting out I would assumed it was a bad ground because it didn't blow any fuses(inputs are very welcome on this idea). The reason for all of my acc not working I would assume because it is that my fuseblock is slightly different from the one that came with the car. The 2g I took it out of was a 95/96 body not sure of the year but that might have had something to do with it. My solution to this problem will be to take my fuseblock apart and inspect or problems and if possible fix it and if not possible get one out of a 98 body in the junkyard and see if that one works, after that satan will take all of my money
My fuseblock was is a PITA it causes me troubles by not letting my gauges, windows and sunroof work. This leads to a greater problem by unintentional speeding, running out of gas and incorrect odometer reading, so it is pretty important. I know that the fuseblock was the part that was giving me my problems because for me to get some of the acc. to work I would have to kick it and hold it(a lot a finagling with it).
my story:
My fuseblock, the fuseblock is located on the inside of the car to the left of the clutch pedal, I replaced today with a n/t one. It involved the unplugging and plugging in about 9 harnesses. There is a piece attached to the back of it that has a wire coming out of it that does not match up with the one that is in my car but they are interchangeable so I swapped it out with my old one. Hooked everything up and turned the key to notice everything was working great except for the sunroof. I turned the key to start the car and, POP! I lost all power I thought it was a major fuse but all fuses were good. I disconnected the battery and hooked it back up with everything working again but the same thing happens again, I swap the old one back in and I seem to have the same problem. I unplugged my pillar gauges, which were getting power through the turbo timer harness off of the green wire and it started right up so I left it unplugged and eventually putting it in with the fuse for the gauges. I put the fuseblock from the n/t back in and it started right up with no problem, the sunroof didn't work though and also the srs light stayed on but everything else worked fine like it should. I got to the gas station and when I was going to leave, POP! it cut off again unplugged the gauges from the fuseblock and it started up with still a small snap noise from the battery, I had to get to work so I didn't have time for investigation. On the ride to work the radio, radiator fan (which can only be turned on by turning on the a'/c which is not hooked up) and that was it.
Thoughts and solutions:
I found out the reason for the fuseblock to act in the manner that it did was, there was corrosion on the prongs where the plugs get plugged into. It was obviously coming from within the fuseblock itself so I would have to take it apart to further inspect it. The reason for the car shorting out I would assumed it was a bad ground because it didn't blow any fuses(inputs are very welcome on this idea). The reason for all of my acc not working I would assume because it is that my fuseblock is slightly different from the one that came with the car. The 2g I took it out of was a 95/96 body not sure of the year but that might have had something to do with it. My solution to this problem will be to take my fuseblock apart and inspect or problems and if possible fix it and if not possible get one out of a 98 body in the junkyard and see if that one works, after that satan will take all of my money
. I went back over my work and realized that one of the plugs wasn't plugged in, so I plugged it back in and it worked perfect. I stand corrected a 95/96 n/t fuseblock will work in a 98 turbo dsm, which leads me to beleive that all of them are interchangeable. So if you had the same problem I had go and do it, it's only 9 plugs.
