somehting smoked near the batt, now i have no voltage.,....batt fried?? anything else that could fry from this??

 

You may have blown a fusible link. Pull the cables off the battery and hook a voltmeter up to it, it should read 11-12 volts. If not then your battery is shot. If it's got voltage then check your fusible links and your fuses inside the car, a quick jolt should not be enough to smoke your battery, but may be enough to throw a fuse.

 

I did that and blew a fusable link near the battery. Its on a block directly beside the battery.

 

Yeah, I did that too, its a fusable link

Haynes Manual:

1) Disconnect Negative Battery Cable

:P

 

wasnt a quick jolt, it was the valve cover welded to the alt terminal lol.....so i had the alt checked and sho' nuff its dead heh. but now, with new alt and new batt, batt is still dying....how do i replace the link....anyone have a pic of it???

 

on the wire from the back of the alt, follow it to the battery, there's a black plastic piece built in to the line, that's the fusible link, and if it did that kind of damage to the alternator, I would definitely check that one out first. Just cut it out and bypass it, you can plumb a new one in there with little difficulty. Also check your cooling fan fuse, a 25 amp fuse in the block. I know it sounds strange, but the alternator circuit goes through that fuse.

 

cool deal, found the problem, fixed it...all is good ..kinda, now i gotta see why the hell i have to have my timing jacked up to 18-20 advanced to get the car to run right

 

check your ECM for a code 53 the surge from that wire may have caused a system overvoltage fault.

 

ecm was cleared after i took the batt out

 

Yeah..... stupid me....... let me get back to you on that one.

 

lol is all good

 

Where did the timing sit before the little 'incident' with the alt.?



edit: one more thing run the engine and see if any more codes come up, you may be having problems with the EST control.

 

Do you have a spair ECM to swap out and test that.

Might have fried a ecm... Ive seen weirder **** happen.

 

too bad i purchased a new ecm 3 months ago..sucks...

 

that's gotta suck. I see you have some other posts here about various engine changes/modifications. Tell me did you change the cam in this engine and have the problem with the alt before you ran it the first time?