For all of you fighting a stutter at WOT, check your fusible link. Mine was all corroded so I threw a new one in and now it drives like a dream. Thought I'd help if I could. happy motoring
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fusible link? where is it? -
In the trunk, it's inline with the battery cable.
Originally posted by ROLLingKINGOriginally posted by slammin.e28Comment
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where would it be if my verts PO relocated my battery to the front?
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I'm not sure where it is on the front mounted batteries. However, it wasn't relocated. The very early (84-85) 318s and all of the convertibles have them in the front.
Originally posted by ROLLingKINGOriginally posted by slammin.e28Comment
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it's on the secondary wire on the positive terminal. it looks like a little flat piece in the middle of the wire, at least in the rear battery cars
Originally posted by ROLLingKINGOriginally posted by slammin.e28Comment
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would my car still crank even if the fusible link took a shit?
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My buddy removed that wire out of my car, and it ran "ok", still chirped 2nd and 3rd (NV m50) and today (which is a day after i got it from putting the suspension/wheels/interior pretty much everything together) i went to start it to go to work and it sputters like crazy and barely moves. idles like it's running on 3 cylinders.
90 325is alpine2 m50b25 becoming a dorifto car.Comment
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Yes. That wire (and fusible link) supplies power only to the engine management system. The starter is powered from the large cable.
The best fix I have found for the fusible link is to cut out the link and splice the users, using a solder connection. Then where that wire connects at the power point in the engine bay use a lug type 60a fuse between the wire and the power point.The car makes it possible, but the driver makes it happen.
Jim Levie, Huntsville, ALComment
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