hey everyone, i have a ls swapped third gen and i noticed that my one of the wires are cut on my positive side battery harness. the one that’s cut has a fuse ran through it. any ideas or help to fixing this. i tried using butt connectors, but that didn’t work. it’s blowing my main fuse on my modded ls harness. please help . thanks in advanced pfa

 

can someone please help here ?

 

 

If that is blowing fuses you have a short somewhere.

 

that looks how mine looked before how it looks now. where can i get one?

 

mine has been cut from where it connect to the battery and in the middle of the black wire going to the circle piece where both wires connect. where they both were connected at, i stripped the circle piece off to see how it was wires in, but i can’t get it back to normal.

not trying to get anyone confused, but when i hook up the wire to the alternator, it’ll blow my fuse on my ls harness, if it’s not hooked up when i touch the neg and pos to battery it won’t do it . so it has to be where those wires been cut from the battery positive side.

thanks for responding

 

Pretty sure factory cables are long gone, but you might check Classic Industries or Year One. You might also try Innovative Wiring for new custom cables, but I think he's shutdown right now. Or maybe you'll get lucky and find one at a junkyard. But you can still make your positive cable work.

If you look at the picture I posted, you can see that both, the orange wire and the black wire connect to the positive battery cable(via a fusible link and a heavier gauge wire, both of which have been cutoff from your positive battery cable). So with your wires cutoff, neither side of the C106 connector is getting power, therefore, obviously, nothing beyond that connector is getting power either, at least, in a 3rdgen harness, but not sure how that might translate to LS wiring.

With all of that in mind, improvise with your own positive cable: 1) connect the black wire directly to the positive cable/terminal(that's all for that wire because it's already connected to its own fuse, from which the orange/black wire goes to one side of the connector); and 2) also connect the orange wire directly to the positive cable/terminal, but insert an inline fuse en route to its side of the connector. That's it. Both wires will be fused, and everything will receive power. Wrap it up all pretty and keep it that way, or use it that way for testing your components, until you find/make something new.

 

thanks but can you explain that last paragraph a bit more. i’m not really good with wires tbh

 

I cobbled something together to show you what I mean. These parts and gauges were handy, but there are other styles of in-line fuse holders, some made specifically for connecting to the positive battery cable, and some that will allow you to design a connection very much like the stock cable design, so more appropriate parts are available. But something like this will work and get you up and running. You can always create something better later.


Loop it over your positive battery cable stud, then connect to the black and orange wires:


Wire colors won't matter for your finished product(all red, all black, all orange, black and orange, whatever suits you), just be sure to connect the new fused wire to the orange wire. But use more appropriate gauge wires than I've used, and use a better grade loop(heavier and gold) for the battery stud. Even better if you can wire the new wires directly into the starter and alternator wires within the positive cable, like the wire that was cutoff.

 

ok thanks , i ordered one off ebay. hopefully it works like my old one did