no lights no fan no crank no start HHHHEEEELPPPPPPP

[dgamez414]

ok so i was putting in my rebuild steering rack and lucky me i was hurry that i was i did not unplug the battery. so what happen is the ignition switch touched on of the the metal panels and caused a short so now i turned the key and nothing turns on except the headlighst no interior lights no dash lights no radio nothing so i did checked the fuses only the flasher sounds clicking but the hazard lights wont turn on. nothing was blown so my question is where can my short be at i hope its not the ecu its a 91 manual trans L trim festy

[william]

Main fuse under the hood looks like a piece of wire it will be in the center of the fuse block on the driver side strut tower.
You can replace this with a green long legged auto fuse.
That's were I would start.

[dgamez414]

hey thanks for the quick response william if damaged would the loops be broken or cut in half i checked them as well and one was rusted but nothing looked wrong until i started yanking on it then it just broke off too easy

[william]

Yep they tend to burn inside the coating. Making them look okay but when you touch them they crumble.
The first time this happened to me I couldn't see anything wrong with any of them. Turned out to be burnt inside. I pulled it ,and made one out of speaker wire to get me home.

[dgamez414]

oh snap ok thanks for the tip

[bravekozak]

Here's a pic of the fuses that have to be installed in place of the fusible links.

[dgamez414]

hey thanks for the pic bravekozak, I just put a speaker wire in the mean time i dont know if that did the trick because the next day everything turned on the fans the A/C blower the radio and the dash lights too thank you guys

[bravekozak]

Buy pink-green-pink log legged fuses and replace the speaker wire ASAP. Or, you may risk a fire.