Nasty Short Circuits

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Saturday I replaced my old 650 Holley with a new 750, with a bunch of friends from TPOC.

Today I had problems with my car all day!

Fuse # 12 blew 3 times and my battery was dead this morning...

To keep a long story short, I eventually found one of the leads for the
reverse switch/backup lamp was disconnected and grounding on the ZF.

I hooked it up, put in another fuse and everything started to work properly again.

The morale is: whenever you crawl into the rear
compartment to work on the engine, check the connections to the backup
switch after getting out and before starting the car.

10/31/049:28 PM

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chuckmeltonMember

I learned a similar lesson, when I was working on my carb. I forgot to attach the electric choke wire, and unon start (live wire) it burned the insulation off several feet of wire.

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11/1/043:04 PM

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