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Technical => Electrical Tech => Topic started by: bossman on January 23, 2007, 04:48:15 PM

Title: fuses
Post by: bossman on January 23, 2007, 04:48:15 PM
i need the fuse designation for the fuse box on my 88 bird 3.8. lost the owners manual and the fuse box cap and parts store manuals are no help
Title: fuses
Post by: jcassity on January 23, 2007, 05:01:48 PM
here is what you are looking for.  My haynes has this very picture in it ,, but i bought mine back in 90.
our cars dont have fuse boxes,, nor do they have a fuse box cap, unless i missed something along the way with my past three cougars.  im not sure if your talking about a cougar or tbird ,
Title: fuses
Post by: jcassity on January 23, 2007, 05:13:20 PM
you anywhere close to symerna tn? i think i spelled that right.
Title: fuses
Post by: Autocat on January 23, 2007, 09:01:15 PM
is this 3.8 only or same for 87 5.0?  im having problems (which i think i got covered) with the radio and cigar lighter pulsating power on and off.
Title: fuses
Post by: jcassity on January 24, 2007, 12:11:46 AM
for both including the 2.3 also
Title: fuses
Post by: jcassity on January 24, 2007, 12:13:39 AM
im thinking by now, i have posted every single page of the evtm for our cars:D  i feel like i got away with something,,:evilgrin:

i have 21 of 245 pages that i show as not being uploaded here.
Title: fuses
Post by: Vantage08 on January 24, 2007, 10:49:58 AM
HMm..i was playing with my fuses lastnight. I was changing the brake sensor when i found out that a wire has come out of the harness to cause my brake lights to work when they want to =:/..so it's rigded right now till I get another harness from a friend of mine..(BJL)..oh yeah..the wire poped out and sparked against the steeering column and burn the rear lights fuse out lol..so my dad adn i dig for a fuse laying around and we find these fuses thats must be 15 years old lol..the brand name is BRONCO..?lol well it works for now.
Title: fuses
Post by: bossman on January 30, 2007, 06:33:52 PM
yeah i live about 20 minuted from smyrna. also my lovely hoop-t is giving me some more . i can turn it over (and over and over) but it only fires every 4 or 5 turns and it wont run. i have good compression fuel pressure and spark. the problem didnt just happen it got worse ovr time. could it be the timing belt and if so what do i have to do to change it
Title: fuses
Post by: bossman on January 30, 2007, 06:36:54 PM
oh yeah and check this out. i unplugged the ecm and nothing changed so i got another one and still nothing changed. i think im about to drive it into a rock quarry. please help
Title: fuses
Post by: jcassity on January 31, 2007, 04:29:48 AM
below my sig,,,, clik on the DIY link.

you dont have a timing belt.

is the spark BLUE!!!! or orangeish in color
what is your fuel presure
what was the compression readings (all of them)
Title: fuses
Post by: jcassity on January 31, 2007, 04:32:39 AM
Quote from: bossman;126734
oh yeah and check this out. i unplugged the ecm and nothing changed


i would have thought cranking the car without an ecm hooked up would have changed a lot of things,,lol.

dood, seriously,, stop doing stuff like this,,
do some reading, do some tinkering, give her some love.  shot gun troubleshooting only gets you as far as your pocket is deep.

i would encourage any member of this board to step forward and produce the thread here that indicates your EEC was the fault and after replacing it, all your troubles went away.  These eec's are tanks imho.
Title: fuses
Post by: bossman on January 31, 2007, 02:28:09 PM
blue spark. compression was: cyl.1-116, 2-125 3-125, 4-105, 5-129, 6-119. so i have a chain instead of a belt?