I need help. Last night in the dark and rain I put a new battery in my 95 GT and, yep you guessed it, put the positive and negative wires on backwards. Immediately started smoking so I pulled the negative wire off but the damage was done. My question is, what got fried? There is no power to anything as near as I can tell, but I have no clue what usually gets damaged when this happens and what needs to be replaced first so I can get power to the car to start seeing what other issues I will have to deal with. The battery seems to have come through this ordeal fine. A couple of other details, I ran a continuity check between the positive and negative terminals and it was current flowing. When I hook the terminals up correctly there is nothing, not even the normal little spark you get when you attach the cables to the battery. All fuses are good but the wire marked fusible link looks a litle burned and there is a strong odor of burnt wire. Nobody sells a fusible link for a 95 and that concerns me a bit. Thanks for any help.
Battery screw up
- Thread starter 3greenfords
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Check the fusible links that attach to the fuse box under the hood. This happened to someone else recently, and I'm pretty sure that was the cause of their power issue afterward.
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