Car sputtering, alternator fuse blown, power option gone

[trunks]

I've tried searching but what happened today was WTF. I'm driving home and hit a bump and my radio dies. I'm thinking okay just a fuse. Car runs fine. Then I get home power windows, locks and fan are dead. So, then when I try to restart , she barely goes and sputters but I can go clunking all the way. My wideband reads nothing or super lean. I open up the hood and the 100amp alternator/choke fuse is toast.

Okay the bizarre part is my shifter feels really soft in the bottom on 2nd, 4th. and reverse. Sorry for the simplistic description, but it goes really spungy going way farther down than normal and making a makes a clinking sound but shifts just fine. My battery light is on, parking light, and some funky looking light on the left side on the dash.

It had been idling way high (warm) at 2000 RPM but now sputters at 750 -like it's supposed to be at. I had been messing with DSMlink for a couple of days leaning out my E85 cruising AFR, but I don't think that did it? Just that fuse couldn't cause all that caos?

So did my car just completely explode or what?

Any help at all would be very appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[pj91gsx]

Is the strange light your gas light?

 

[trunks]

I apologize...it's on the right side - orange - right next to the 150mph - looks like a roman building - pic attached.

 

[Supa Dexta]

Thats for the coolant. It's a radiator that symbol.

 

[trunks]

Yeah, I just found that out too. Coolant level is fine in the car. Just a new fuse and everything back to normal

 

[pimpin81]

dude you probably lost your waterpump/alternator belt. that radiator symbol usually means your waterpump is not rotating. and i would guess its overheating as well?

 

[trunks]

hey man, actually the coolant temp was fine. It's a brand new pump too. From what I've been reading blowing that fuse does make your dsm go haywire so I picked one up today and will throw it in tonight. I'm assuming that bump caused my alternator to touch the chassis or something.

I'm still baffled about the shifter though, but still searching

 

[trunks]

Just an update: alternator wire had somehow jammed in to the turbo heat shield and shorted. New fuse, tape, zip tie and it's back up. I took apart the center and have attached a pic of my worn shifter. Final question - is the cable shot or can it fix the catch part or is there a ghetto rig solution? CAPS has it as part of the cable.

Thanks!