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Radiator Fan Fuse help

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sherwinz28

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Aug 25, 2004
Hayward, California
Ok so I think I figured out why my car overheated. The Radiator Fan Fuse was messed up. I tried to pry it out to replace it and things got worse. While doing this I also did a compression test and got these numbers:
150 140 140 150
170 170 170 170 with cap full of oil.

Heres a pic of what I'm talking about.

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After messing with that whole terminal and doing a compression check I think I messed up the IGN as well cause now the car won't even crank over or anything. Need some help on how to replace that.

P.S. I'm not good with wiring stuff. If you need any more info let me know.
Thanks,
Sherwin
 
YOu need to bolt the fuse box into the positive terminal. YOu also just use your hand to pull those fuse, not pry it out. The only solution if you really messed up your fuse box is to get another one from the junk yard.
 
I did have it bolted up but unbolted it to see how to remove fuse box and couldnt figure it out. I was able to remove the rest by hand except for that one for the radiator fans...it would not come out no matter what until I just forcibly yanked it out. I was able to get the pinkish cap off but it left all the internals on the fuse box.
 
Another problem came up when I was messing with radiator fan fuse over the weekend. Now whenever I try to start the car it does one click around that MPI fuse box area and then the car just totally loses power but if I disconnect the battery and reconnect it the power returns but then when I try to start it, it does the one click and dies again...I've done this like 5 times already. Anyone have any idea what could be the problem? Is there a way I can just solder a piece of wire across the missing radiator fan fuse and run it like that? What is making the one click and killing the battery...is it the alarm system possibly?

Thanks,
Sherwin
 
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