I was driving my 84 TA when all of a sudden my radio cut out and my car started missing and then died. I pulled onto a side street and realized I had not electrical power except to my lights and horn. Does anyone know what could have caused this. I was thinking possibly a fusible link, but if that is the case I do not know where they are located. Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

You are correct, it is a fusible link.

There are 2 of them. They are in a little metal tube right above the starer. If you disconnect the battery and then take all teh wires off the starter, you can pull them up out of the tube and work on them from above. If you can't find the right fusible link wire, use #14 wire to replace it.

It's a fuse, of course; so in order for it to blow, something downstream of it is drawing too much current, like there's a shorted wire somewhere or some such. Hopefully it won't just pop on you again when you hook it back up.

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I climed underneath last night and found a wire coming off the starter that was laying on the exhaust and got burnt through, so I spliced in a new wire and tied it against the starter. Hopefully it will not happen again. Thanks for the info.