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Old Jun 6, 2010 | 06:07 AM
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I have a 1991 integra and I ran my battery killswitch last night and when I hooked it all back up my head lights, tail lights, dash lights, clock, radio and cigarette lighter dont work. Ive checked all my fuses under dash and in engine bay atleast twice, put a new light switch in and still nothing. I unhooked the wires I ran for my killswitch and ran it stock and they still didnt work. Im out of thoughts. Blinkers work fine and car runs fine. The voltage went down a little bit from a constant 13.9 to 13.2. Thanks for any help. I had the killswitch hooked up to just the starter before and it was fine. As soon as i hooked up the alternater it killed it all.
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Old Jun 6, 2010 | 11:03 AM
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post 1 and post 2. what wires are hooked where?
we dont know how you have it wired.
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Old Jun 6, 2010 | 12:22 PM
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I have my battery ran to one post of my killswitch and the other post goes to the starter and the fuse box. I ran my alternater directly to my battery. The killswitch works great and kills all power instantly
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Old Jun 6, 2010 | 03:21 PM
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Look into your fuse panel for your problem. Sounds like you messed something up there....
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Old Jun 6, 2010 | 04:03 PM
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yeah thats my next thought. Having a buddy bring over a test light tomorrow to look into the fuse box. Is that the correct way to wire the killswitch?
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Old Jun 6, 2010 | 06:15 PM
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[QUOTE=tepid1;42682162]Look into your fuse panel for your problem. Sounds like you messed something up there....[/QUOTE
Tepid1, I ran the killswitch from a picture I found from you awhile ago. Where you said to run the alternater directly to the battery. With that wire, do you still run it to the fuse box or just the battery? Thanks
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Old Jun 6, 2010 | 07:46 PM
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Just as you saw in the picture is how you need to do it.
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Old Jun 7, 2010 | 08:00 AM
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link to said picture lol??????????
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Old Jun 7, 2010 | 09:13 AM
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link to said picture lol??????????
https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...ght=killswitch
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Old Jun 7, 2010 | 09:28 AM
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sweet thanx man i need to do this as well
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Old Jun 7, 2010 | 09:29 AM
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damm link dont work anymore
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Old Jun 8, 2010 | 02:43 PM
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I checked my fuses and the things that are not working fuses wouldnt work. I jumped a known good fuse to the clock fuse and it worked. I put a new fuse box in and still all the same things that didnt work still dont work. Im really confused still
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Old Jun 8, 2010 | 03:39 PM
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Post a pic of your fuse panel with the cover off.
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Old Jun 8, 2010 | 04:16 PM
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Hope these help Tepid1.
The first picture is it out of the car.
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Old Jun 9, 2010 | 07:45 AM
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I would grab a meter and check to make sure u have voltage going into the fuses.. If there's none then just trace back to find the missing positive. If all is okay the trace for your negative.. Make sure all your grounds are clean. And all the bolts are tight..
If all u did was install a switch it has to be something u disconnected and didn't put back right..
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Old Jun 9, 2010 | 12:35 PM
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Are you still using the under hood relay panel as well? I do believe that had some feed into the in car relay panel as well....
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Old Jun 9, 2010 | 02:07 PM
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thank you tepid1(chris?) for your trouble shooting. One of the wires going from the under dash fuse box to the in car had a wire short. Thanks again for your time helping me.
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Old Jun 9, 2010 | 03:15 PM
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Yup, Chris is the name.

So that was the fix? The short in the wire?

Good ****! That was easy if so. lol
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Old Jun 9, 2010 | 03:40 PM
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there was three big wires leading from the under dash fuse box to the engine bay. one of the wires was broken. Pain in the butt to chase but something stupid. hopfully finally get it to the track friday. I'm Bobby by the way. thanks again.
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