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Location:
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Registered:
December 2002
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Fuse kills engine, saves car.
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Fri, 01 August 2003 11:32
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Hi,
Last night I was driving home from Melbourne along a stretch of hilly road called Highland Way. It was a little past midnight when the motor stopped, no splutters or anything like that it just simply stopped.
I rolled over to the side of the road and attempted one restart and I noticed that there was no LPG computer and no Engine manager computer.
I grabbed the torch I keep in the glove box and popped the bonnet and started doing a bit of a midnight roadside fault find.
As it turns out a button connector had come apart by about 2mm or less and it was just enough to expose the conductor which touched a small bolt that was near by and neatly blew the fuse that protects the circuit that powers the computers.
So to cut the story short I managed to find something to replace the fuse with and off I went again.
It sort of brings the importance of using fuses doesn't it, if there was no fuse (and I have seen people do it on headlights etc) there would have been a fire in that wire bundle.
Anyway this morning I replaced the fuse, fixed the connector and retidied the loom that was pulled apart.
And all is well again.
Cheers Megan
PS. Sorry if the title was a little too dramatic..
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Location:
Bundaberg, Qld.
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Fuse kills engine, saves car.
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Fri, 01 August 2003 22:31
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 yes it makes me shudder, since '98 i have been judging in sound-offs. you see some scary shite when it comes to 8 to 0 guage audio wire with-out a fuse... arrgghhhh.....
fuses are good.. 
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