i post this in the electronics forum, but its not entirely electronic.



Well, one day i was driving down the road and my gauges just give out.(got pulled over and got a ticket too before i noticed...funny when ur needle is stuck at 64 and ur going 77 and the cop dosnt care). Well it turns out my guage fuse was blown. I put another one in and it blew within 5 minutes. And so did the next one. Well im thinking theres a short somewhere, but where is it? Well I took my gauge cluster out and it still blew...so I know its not that. And I took the fuses out of many other components, including my radio and cd player that I had put in a month before. The little bastard was still blowing. Well like a month after that my car had trouble starting. It would always start, but on a cold start it takes 15 cranks, rest...then 15 more cranks and bam, it starts everytime. It will start just fine if i have to turn it off for a little bit. So im thinking its the fuel pump or something related to the fuel pump that isnt letting my system stay pressurized. But wait...i have a 92 camaro, when u turn the power on but not the engine..arnt u supposed to hear a humming sound?..which is supposedly the fuel pump turning on? I remember hearing that sound but i dont hear it anymore and I just noticed that. Maybe my gauge fuse and fuel pump are related. Hopefully they are and I can kill 2 birds in one stone when I get home and start hacking **** apart. Hopefully I wont break anything or take apart the wrong part. Im a computer guru and an aspiring car guru, so any help would be appreciated since i dont know too much of what im doing. Thanx

 

You are having the same problem I had. I read all of the books I could, asked a ton of people and still got no answers. I found the problem about a month later when I blew the engine and had to rebuild it. It was the wires down by the starter, they were arching off of eachother. Now it could be your coil also, if you have a wiring diagram, check out all of the wires that are traced back to your instrument cluster fuse. The air pump is one, coil another, check your grounds (mainly the one on the passenger side head leading to the firewall). This should give you a start, I'd change the coil, cap, rotor, plugs, and wires if I were you. It shouldn't take that long to fire, it should be a quick turn of the key and the car starts, cold or hot. Let me know what you find, I understand the frustration. Believe me, it sucks driving a 1/2 hour home without any gauges in the dark with the buzzing nose from the lights being on.