8n Ford Wiring Harness Fried front Distributor

Dan Zimmer · Jul 15, 2021

Everything was Good. Placed wires for lights and wiring harness fried. The wire I believe to cause the melt was the wire from starter button to solenoid?

BarnyardEngineering · Jul 15, 2021

To my way of thinking if the wires you were working with were the headlight wires, then those wires caused the short, not the wire you were NOT working on.

Regardless, you had a dead short circuit, and that's what caused the wires to melt.

SDE · Jul 15, 2021

Obvious sign of a dead short to ground. I put a wire on the wrong battery terminal once. Melted a few wires together and they smoked a lot also. The wire that has the most damage is the first place to look.
Good luck

JMOR · Jul 15, 2021

(quoted from post at 07:55:18 07/15/21) Everything was Good. Placed wires for lights and wiring harness fried. The wire I believe to cause the melt was the wire from starter button to solenoid?

hat wire is among the least likely suspects, as the switch simply grounds it for START anyway, so a short to ground on that wire would be the same as pressing START switch....just crank the engine.

old · Jul 15, 2021

If the wire from the start button whereto short out all that would happen is the starter would spin the engine over till either the started burned up or the battery goes dead. Almost impossible for it to smoke the wiring harness

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