Just pushed my festy home after it died on me

[stefan]

urg, so my friend and i took my festy out for a cruize. i let him drive it and he stalled it. then it wouldnt restart.. it turned over real good but it wouldnt fire at all. i (tried) to test for spark even back to the coil and i got nothing. but im not sure i was doing it right. i took a coupple plugs out and they were dry too.

[warlocke]

check the fuel cut off? if not that then check the fusible links under the hood by the batt.

[mattswabb]

There are 3 fuses on the drivers side shock tower. They look like small pieces of wire, not fuses as you would expect. One supplies power to the ignition. Start there.

[stefan]

how to you know if those links are blown?

[warlocke]

be best to replace them just to be safe, im not sure ive never dealt with this personally, but it seems a common issue on festys.

[stefan]

can you buy those? ive never seen them anywhere

[skeeters_keeper]

you can get replacements that look sorta like big fuses... heres a pic

they will plug in where the wire came out of. usually if those links blow they are melted or something, if you pull them out you should be able to tell.

sometimes the block they plug into goes bad, in which case you can replace the whole block with a type that holds normal fuses.

[stefan]

asome, the only thing is, what rating should the replacements be? the links dont have any amp rating on them or anything

[25Horseplay]

Packrat427 did a article on this with pictures if you search.

[stefan]

i searched before posting and couldn't find anything

[mattswabb]

i searched before posting and couldn't find anything

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6066

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6314

[stefan]

ops: thanks i never found that searching for fuseable links

ill upgrade to those next time im at an auto parts store, however ive found my problem, its the timeing belt.

[kuntry_boi06]

Re: Just pushed my festy home after it died on me

urg, so my friend and i took my festy out for a cruize. i let him drive it and he stalled it. then it wouldnt restart.. it turned over real good but it wouldnt fire at all. i (tried) to test for spark even back to the coil and i got nothing. but im not sure i was doing it right. i took a coupple plugs out and they were dry too.

dont be too pissed atleast it was a festi and not a hummer ops:

[miami man]

when going to the junkyard i always full the fusible links from the junk car in case i need them.

[roycehof]

O.K. Miami Man explains why I can never find any - He has them all - LOL.