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Old Jul 5, 2010 | 08:04 PM
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battery to junction block? help please.

I'm trying to figure out how to connect that wire that comes from the positive battery to the junction block? The end of that black with red stripe wire has a metal ring on it. Isn't there supposed to be some kind of fuse thing? The car was running before I disconnected it. I looked at the junction block with those wires and then at the positive wire and just cannot put the two together on how you connect them? Help me I am pulling my hair out and don't want to be bald.

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Old Jul 5, 2010 | 10:11 PM
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Re: battery to junction block? help please.

I assume you disconnected the wire by putting a 10mm socket sideways into the middle of the junction block and removing the nut that holds down all the wires with ringed ends and slid the ring off the stud. Putting all the rings back on to the stud and tightening the nut back on would seem to restore the connections.

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Old Jul 6, 2010 | 12:05 PM
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Re: battery to junction block? help please.

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I assume you disconnected the wire by putting a 10mm socket sideways into the middle of the junction block and removing the nut that holds down all the wires with ringed ends and slid the ring off the stud. Putting all the rings back on to the stud and tightening the nut back on would seem to restore the connections.
I haven't taken anything off since February and forgot to take pictures so I forgot . But what I see by the battery are 3 small black boxes with wires coming out of all of them. the first 2 are right behind my headlight (passenger) and the other one is by by the fender, I've checked them all and I can't find any stud to put this wire through. Which one of those is the junction block?
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Old Jul 6, 2010 | 05:14 PM
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Re: battery to junction block? help please.

None of them - those are all relays by your description. The power block will have 4-5 orange/red wires running to it with fusible links in them. Find any wire with a fusible link in it (like a starter wire), and trace it to the distribution center.

The distribution center has a 10mm bolt in the center, and looks like a round housing about 2 in in diameter, with slits all along the side around it where those wires go in and get attached all together under that 10mm bolthead.

It's between battery and radiator on my model.
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Old Jul 6, 2010 | 06:37 PM
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Re: battery to junction block? help please.

man I have looked for about an hour total for this thing It's ridiculous. Is it possible that Mine didn't come with one?

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Old Jul 6, 2010 | 07:03 PM
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Re: battery to junction block? help please.

Ok I got some pictures..Am I looking in the right place? : (The first picture is just zoomed up of the second one).

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Old Jul 6, 2010 | 07:38 PM
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Re: battery to junction block? help please.

The battery goes in that space right?

You're right, there's no power distribution center there! Must be different than later years - I wasn't thinking earlier but I notice you are a 1986. So another with knowledge of your year car will have to chime in.
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Old Jul 6, 2010 | 08:04 PM
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Re: battery to junction block? help please.

Yes that's where my battery goes, Do I need that black with red stripe cable connected to run the car? because I don't ever remember unplugging it (I might have I haven't touched it since February..) , and thanks for confirming that so I don't spend another hour looking at nothing LOL.

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