Ok so i put a new motor in my car blah blah blah. Reset the TDC cause it was off and wouldnt start. One of my buddies touched the battery terminals together on accident and now i have a short in the circuit. and wont start the car, it actually set my engine ground on fire/burnt up. So i went through and disconnected my whole wiring harness and still had a short. then ripped out the ECU and still had one. I started taking my battery wire out from the trunk and seen that where i had to fuse the 2 wires together had been fried off. Long story short i found the short in the circuit. In the underhood fusebox with a test light if you touch the fuses they should come up positive. My left and right headlight and abs fuse are grounded??? Im stumped right now and could use some help, if this has happened to anyone or anything let me know. im not the best with electrical.

 

anything? anyone? any help would be great im pretty lost

 

still nothingg??

 

Dude - that sucks!

So, what battery terminal touched? You mentioned the trunk and headlights... Was the car running when this happened? Was it a stereo amp that shorted? This might help a bit.

If you had a fire, you are going to have a hard time. Start by getting a manual with full schematics. I would then look for burned fuses and test those circuits. Also, you can pull all fuses and test continuity and test for short to ground. All of the component side should have some resistance to ground. Remember Amps=Volt / resistance. If you have a 10 amp circuit, there should be at least a 1.2 ohm resistance to ground.

Maybe this will help.

 

yeah def. sucks. one of my friends touched the battery terminals together, and my battery is in the trunk. when they touched them they blew my + wire apart where i had to fuse 2 wires together to make it reach the trunk grounding it out in my backseat. now when you test the 20 amp headlight fuses in the fusebox they are grounding instead of being "hot" or +. and my 7.5 amp abs fuse right above it is grounding out.

when the ground wire on my timing belt side set on fire/smoked up it burnt out the abs wire.
so now my battery ground is hot or +. i unplugged my ecu and my whole wiring harness and it stopped that, so im thinking i need a new wiring harness.. idk.

 

it weird and i HATE electrical work, and im a mechanic, eff my life lol

 

got it thanks anyways!