what did I do

[cdnm1009]

Wanted to quickly change my belts and had the passenger side alt terminal touch something and got a crack and smoke from the drivers side terminal board just above the glow plug relay. Brown fusible wire.

Can I drive to a local shop to pick up a new wire or should I wait for the wife to come home and take her car?

Its the Brown wire on the left

Note to self, disconnect the batteries next time!

 

[doghead]

Does it start?

 

[cdnm1009]

Yup. Gen meter is still in the green but a little low.

 

[doghead]

Run it, but be ready for anything.

Have you measured the suspected fusible link? Is it bad or did it just smoke?

I would change it if either.

 

[cdnm1009]

There was nothing left in the middle. I replaced the wire and the gen meter jumped back up to full. I am gonna look through the manuals and see what fuse was in there. It's jerry rigged for now, and next time I will disconnect the battery. Oops.