You've got a serious short circuit if you blew the ammeter out. I hope that
by-passing the ammeter didn't fry your harness.
You'll have to go through the entire harness to see where the short is. It
ain't no simple fix.
Check your battery cables, alternator harness and the starter harness first
for cuts or melted wires.
Since you didn't blow any fuses, you should first examine all unfused
circuits.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tucson2LSolex@aol.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: dead electrical - progress
> Thank you for all the responses. Despite coming home very late from work
> last night, I felt obligated/motivated to bypass the ameter as several of
your
> suggested. I also put in a fusible link.
>
> The ameter call was correct. Everything worked.
>
> Took it out for a test drive . . . got almost two miles before it gave out
> again. Lights went first. Everything else went 2-3 seconds later.
> Interestingly, no fuses were blown in the fuse box this time.
>
> Obviously I need to begin tracing for a short. I'm open to
recommendations
> as to where to look first.
>
> Thanks again for the quick help.
>
> Cal
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