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Any one ever had problems with there engine wiring harnes?
« on: July 11, 2009, 09:16:56 PM »
My 91 has been giving me so many problems.  Just yesterday I had to replace a water hose that went from the block to the throttle body (very hard to get to, I had to remove the intake manifold).

And then less that 24 hours later, this happened.  I've been driving my car all morning, I maybe put 40 miles on it, when I go to my friends house.  I park my car out front and go inside for maybe 4 hours.  I come out start my car and run it for 1 to 2 minutes (definitely no more than 2 minutes, I was pulling out of a tight parking spot).  By the time I get out of the parking spot, my car is smoking up a storm.  Tons of smoke. So at this point I wonder what the hell could be smoking this badly after 2 minutes,  I immediately park it and search the engine bay.  I fine that the smoke was coming from the compartment right in front of the fire wall.  I removing it and see that some of my wire's have melted down to the copper inside,  Another wire on the passenger side is also fried.  So now my car hardly starts and when it does it won't stay on.:mad:  My friend thinks one wire just shorted and got really hot really fast.


How did this happen?  Has it ever happened to anyone else?  How hard of job is to replace?