Hot Fuses...

[justaZcarguy]

I am getting hot fuses, to the point of melting the lead out of the fuse box...

AND last week the car started to sputter and backfire like it was loosing spark, barely getting it home.

I hate electircal. The fuses seem to fit tight into the clips so I do not think there is resistance there....

Gonna tackle this on the weekend so any info would be appreciated, It's mainly the lighting fuses but I think that there is one more on the right side of the box as well.

Thanks all!

Have a great day!

~Brian

[240ZMan]

Brian,

I have a 73 in which the PO had put a new fuse box in. Still, one of the clips was getting hot enough that I burned my finger on it. In the end, I took the box out, removed the clip (you can see the way the clip sticks out to hold itself in place, you can pretty easily pop it out) and soldered it. But even then the clip remained too warm. So I cleaned it with a pencil eraser and now it's not hot at all. Even though the box was relatively new, all that time at high temperature had oxidized the contacts a bit.

Assuming that you don't have problems elsewhere you should be able to solve this. But be really patient, go slow, and make sure you disconnect the battery before you begin working on it.

Good luck,

Daniel

[justaZcarguy]

Thanks Daniel!!