lol for real is this stock?

[SwaintaN]

Got bored, was staring under the hood and noticed the wire from alternator to the terminal (dont know what its called) was spliced from a single 6 gauge wire to two 10 gauges wires then one eye inlet. lol that cant be stock...

replaced it with a single 4 gauge wire

 

[Spdrcer34]

Fusible Links.

Used in GM cars. I don't think I've ever seen one in a Ford.

Ryan

 

[YBCold]

i have the same crap in my car i plan on upgrading soon. real soon. yeah i undid my harness and found that too. sux really.:thumbdwn:

 

[SwaintaN]

what is the point of fusible links?

 

[IZwack]

what is the point of fusible links?

Its a crude type of a fuse.

 

[SwaintaN]

so was it bad to replace it with a straight wire?

 

[IZwack]

so was it bad to replace it with a straight wire?

Well I think in stock config, there is no fuse (of any type) beween the ALT and the BATT (because the voltage regulator should take care of any spikes). So if this is true, then replacing it with a regular wire should not be a problem.

 

[SwaintaN]

thanks, i was kinda wondering because the new alternator i was looking at said that it needed to be a 4-2 ga upgrade and didnt say anything about any types of fuses/links

 

[boggs1227]

ha...chris if you think thats bad i had romex in mine ...they rigged up a push button start button

 

[SwaintaN]

lol i was afraid to stare at it to long and find more problems

 

[YBCold]

i looked in the wiring diagram in my haynes book and it says the alt. had a fusible link. at least in 91 it did.

 

[SwaintaN]

what is the point of the fuseable link tho

 

[YBCold]

what is the point of the fuseable link tho

i think its just a bootlegged type of fuse. you could probably get away with not having one but if theres a voltage spike for whatever reason it might do some damage. i think

 

[SwaintaN]

Well I think in stock config, there is no fuse (of any type) beween the ALT and the BATT (because the voltage regulator should take care of any spikes). So if this is true, then replacing it with a regular wire should not be a problem.

like what he said tho, shouldnt the spike be ok by the volt meter.. cause the 250 amp output alt that im getting said to jus replace it with a 4-2 ga wire.. that wouldnt have had a fuse...

 

[YBCold]

like what he said tho, shouldnt the spike be ok by the volt meter.. cause the 250 amp output alt that im getting said to jus replace it with a 4-2 ga wire.. that wouldnt have had a fuse...

yeah pretty much and the battery also helps too to catch any extra voltage not used. if you wanted to you could drive without the battery once the car is started. my guess is that ford put that in just in case if a dinkiss maybe jump starts a car wrong or a bad shortout so theres no fire. dont worry about it.

 

[SwaintaN]

battery, lol. yeah that was expensive buy a few years ago to. Red Top Optima.

 

[BlakeOfDoom]

I'd use that wire to slapaho, I really can't stand it when I find weird jury rigged stuff like that in a vehicle and have to wonder if it was put there by the factory or some shadetree idiot who figured it would work better this way.

 

[YBCold]

I'd use that wire to slapaho, I really can't stand it when I find weird jury rigged stuff like that in a vehicle and have to wonder if it was put there by the factory or some shadetree idiot who figured it would work better this way.

Word.:smoke:

 

[SwaintaN]

Word.:smoke:

2nd that!

 

[CDW6212R]

FYI, all circuits need protection from shorting. The fusible links were stock OEM Ford before the mid 1990's. All of the main power wires had them, and should.

Replace that fusible link with a proper sized fuse. All circuits must have a protection, without it any short will not have anything to stop it. The electricity running through an unprotected circuit will cause a fire, or burn through the weakest link.

If you remove the fusible links with regular wire, than whatever the other weakest link will be destroyed if a short occurs. That could be the alternator or regulator, or other parts inside the car, depending on where the links were. That's how a car burns down, the fuse component didn't stop the short.

I don't like fusible links either, but they are far better than straight wire. Go to a parts store ans ask to see the large bar fuses which are in most modern power distribution boxes. Those are excellent to use with alternator wires. Regards,