Riddle Me This

One of my favorite methods, AFTER you find what you think you've found to be the trouble, is to PROTECT the system while you look for further shorts. To do this, get a large wattage 12V lamp. Headlight, or tail/ stop lamp or maybe two of those wired in parallel. Now put your protection lamp in SERIES with the battery ground. Make certain everything you can find in the car is OFF. If the lamp is lit, remove fuses and watch for change. If it is STILL lit, try disconnecting things like the alternator output wire at the stud on the alternator. Use your head.

Wires get melted in the harness and cross together. It can be a nightmare. If you judge this as fairly severe, I would pull the harness, lay it out on a table, nail/ tie it down so you can locate the branches and then unwrap it. Tie the branch points so you know where to re-wrap them.

There are quite a few things in the original cars that ARE NOT FUSED other than the main fuse link and it is POOR PROTECTION