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Old Mar 2, 2008 | 08:27 PM
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ok heres whats up. picked up a 91 hatch today. car ha minor fire where intake grounded out battery to hood causeing ground wire to burn up. car ran and drove home fine after but once high beams were turned on the shit cut out. now the warning lights in the cluster stay on and it wont crank. any suggestions where to start?
Old Mar 2, 2008 | 09:11 PM
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replace the harness and buy lots of spare fuses.
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it definitely sounds like its grounding itself out still....trace the line where the fire was and look for it
Old Mar 3, 2008 | 04:31 AM
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i only wire that burn up that i can see is the ground wire!! can anybody help??
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no suggestions
Old Mar 18, 2008 | 09:14 PM
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replace harness and grounds
Old Mar 18, 2008 | 09:15 PM
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Default Re: honda guys please help

Originally Posted by yohomeyg69
replace harness and grounds
Do you just go through every thread and give useless information? Why the hell would you replace a whole harness or grounds that may not have anything wrong.
Old Mar 20, 2008 | 10:24 AM
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homie this happened to me in my 88 crx just calm down take a step back then buy a new ground terminal did you do this already?> mine melted apart all i did was replace terminal reset ecu and boom fixed if you trace the ground a lil bit an make sur it didnt get burnt through at any point if it did then it touching the body and grounding out , so replace the wire you might have fried your ecu though . . . prob . not but maybe
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