I was getting excited to get my 78 Malibu back to running when I touched the alternator wire to the casing. A startling pop occured, and I realized I left the battery wired up. #-o continued to finish putting it all back together anyway.
Now all dash lights, cabin and outside lights, ignition power, everything is not working... Anyway I thought maybe it blew fuses out, I checked the fuse box and everything is okay. I can't find any sort of relays or fusable links on this car so I thought "Maybe I grounded the alternator?" Took it to get checked at the auto store, their equipment says it passed fine.
Has anybody ever had this experience? I figure it cannot be too hard to find, it's a fairly simple older car. So far the wire looks fine where I traced it, but only to where it goes up under the firewall, at the top of the transmission, then it gets pretty tight in there and I can't see.
Now all dash lights, cabin and outside lights, ignition power, everything is not working... Anyway I thought maybe it blew fuses out, I checked the fuse box and everything is okay. I can't find any sort of relays or fusable links on this car so I thought "Maybe I grounded the alternator?" Took it to get checked at the auto store, their equipment says it passed fine.
Has anybody ever had this experience? I figure it cannot be too hard to find, it's a fairly simple older car. So far the wire looks fine where I traced it, but only to where it goes up under the firewall, at the top of the transmission, then it gets pretty tight in there and I can't see.