Dead Battery, Help Find Problem

[eats305sstock]

Dead Battery, Need Help Finding Problem

Just finished doing the one wire conversion, I must have screwed up when I was getting rid of the old alt. wire harness because my car has been sitting since thurs. afternoon, go out a few minutes ago and my battery is completely drained.
Everything I just installed:
100 amp Powermaster
Optima Yellow top
0/1 ga. power and ground wires between alt. and batt. and battery to engine
Stinger Battery terminals

I took some pics of the setup hoping that maybe you guys could find something blatantly wrong, but there is just one thing that has got me worried. When I was removing the old alt. harness there is one wire that is yellow, I dont know where it came from, but it is routed under teh radiator where it is spliced into a black/green wire that went to the regulator. When I was test running all my wires I had the yellow one hooked up to another yellow wire and everything was working fine, ran the wires, cleaned everything up, go to start the car and nothing. After a bit with a test light I find out that this yellow wire was neither getting power, nor was it grounded. So I hard wire it to the starter solenoid and everything works fine again Off I go on my merry way untill today...

I replaced the dead yellow top w/my old die hard and started the car, then using jumper cables I hooked the yellow top up in parrallel to let it get a bit of a charge for about 10 minutes, then I killed the engine and disconnected the neg. battery terminal. Pics should come up below

The dig. display isn't hooked up in case you were wondering. I don't want the display, but couldn't find any other terminals w/dual 0/1 hookup

The + connection on the back of the alt.

A bad pic of where the regulator used to be

A better pic of where the regulator used to be

 

[eats305sstock]

Forgot to mention that on Wedn. I hard wired the my HU to my stater solenoid as well, I really really really doubt this cause the problem but just thought I would throw it out there

 

[eats305sstock]

After some fun with my test light (and a LOT of help from those LED terminal displays, they turn on when they sense a draw, and off after remaining idle for a certain period of time) I am now really really really (kinda) sure that the short is coming from the CD player being hardwired. I'm not sure where it is or what caused it because the wiring looks good and was routed clear of all hot/sharp objects The important thing is I found the problem, and can now prevent it from happening again.


BTW where is the stock fuse box, I don't have my manual down here with me at school and can't find my fuse box for the life of me

 

[eats305sstock]

Come on guys, I'm usually not this impatient but I just want to know where the fuse box is located

 

[2nd Mustang]

Come on guys, I'm usually not this impatient but I just want to know where the fuse box is located

Usually under the dash on the drivers side.

 

[eats305sstock]

I was afraid you would say that, I tried climbing under there earlier (really tight fit) and couldn't see anything. I even tried following the wiring bundles, but kept losing them around the steering column, and then the bundle would go behind my kickpanels and out of the footwell.

Times like these I wish I had a midget friend I could pay 5 bucks so he could sit in my footwell and look behind my dash for me...

 

[2nd Mustang]

Times like these I wish I had a midget friend I could pay 5 bucks so he could sit in my footwell and look behind my dash for me...

Old fart eyes of mine can't see too well under the dash anymore. My string bean son should be able to help, but only good with books. What I find works for me is a few well spoken words of encouragement...(^$#&*(&^$&*^$#%&^*()*))**&*^*(&(&(&(&(&(&.

 

[slick761]

damn all I know is that I cant fit under the dash anymore!!! 5'11 200 dont work. anyways when I hooked mine up all I did was put the hot wire direct to the starter on the left side of the solenoid like you, then put the alternator turn on to the otherside I think.....check for **** from the regulator groundin out!

 

[eats305sstock]

I checked all the wires on the reg. harness with a test light. With the car on/off/acc it doesn't matter none of them had any juice. I could remove the remnants of the harness if I wanted to I'm sure, but I've already had sooo much fun after removing one to many wires to begin with.

6' 125-130. Yeah I can fit...