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[Khalil]

Jersh where is that?

[Jersh]

Jersh where is that?

Not telling you...

[NegativeCamber]

an unmolested e36 m3 is coming hard to come by....

[Khalil]

Tell me you faggot

Eric yeah dude nothing clean anything, and still all of them are overpriced

[Jersh]

Tell me you faggot

Eric yeah dude nothing clean anything, and still all of them are overpriced

It's in Florida. I'm trying to find a way to convince my parents to go for it and come up with the money to buy it.

[Dudermagee]

[andybob]

I got ya. I'm still waiting to hear back from the shop to find out what is wrong with my car again.

In the meantime I found this.
[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t1/bisancorp/1995%20BMW%20M3%20Boston/DSC06723.jpg[IMG]

Want.

dat house doe.

[jdel]

Pulled all the wiring from the previous owners stuff. Figured I would give a new fuse a try. Started it up, everything was all good. Shut the door, POP goes the fuse. Looks like it's time to go through the harness.

[andybob]

Pulled all the wiring from the previous owners stuff. Figured I would give a new fuse a try. Started it up, everything was all good. Shut the door, POP goes the fuse. Looks like it's time to go through the harness.

Here's what you do:

Get yourself a 12v light bulb (like from a headlight) and a couple pieces of wire maybe 2 ft long each. Fasten one end of the wire to the terminals on the light bulb (solder works the best, but whatever way you can make them stay.) Now, where the fuse terminal is, get a couple paper clips and stick them where the fuse pins would go and wrap your wires from the light bulbs around them making a circuit. Now try and get it to short out. If the light bulbs lights up you have a direct short somewhere. With the light bulb though you'll be able to use that as a load so you can wiggle wires or unplug different stuff until you narrow it down.

Have fun.

[jdel]

Here's what you do:

Get yourself a 12v light bulb (like from a headlight) and a couple pieces of wire maybe 2 ft long each. Fasten one end of the wire to the terminals on the light bulb (solder works the best, but whatever way you can make them stay.) Now, where the fuse terminal is, get a couple paper clips and stick them where the fuse pins would go and wrap your wires from the light bulbs around them making a circuit. Now try and get it to short out. If the light bulbs lights up you have a direct short somewhere. With the light bulb though you'll be able to use that as a load so you can wiggle wires or unplug different stuff until you narrow it down.

Have fun.

It's awesome how many ways you can "ghetto-rig" things to make stuff work. I love this idea and will be doing that tomorrow. I'm assuming I take the negative battery cable off when I do this.

[Dudermagee]

Drove the car a couple times this week, no CELs ftw

[oHSo EuRo]

You don't have your wheels on do you?

[andybob]

It's awesome how many ways you can "ghetto-rig" things to make stuff work. I love this idea and will be doing that tomorrow. I'm assuming I take the negative battery cable off when I do this.

Nah man that's how you diagnose it.

When the circuit shorts together that's what makes the fuse blow. (Fusess blow from excess amps going through the circuit). In the place of the fuse you are using a light bulb that has a load. The load allows you to purposely allow the circuit to short so you can find out where it is shorting together. I'm not too good at explaining things without drawing a picture (srs) so I hope you get what I'm saying.

[jdel]

Nah man that's how you diagnose it.

When the circuit shorts together that's what makes the fuse blow. (Fusess blow from excess amps going through the circuit). In the place of the fuse you are using a light bulb that has a load. The load allows you to purposely allow the circuit to short so you can find out where it is shorting together. I'm not too good at explaining things without drawing a picture (srs) so I hope you get what I'm saying.

No I definitely get what you are saying. Basically when I wiggle wires around and unplug stuff, if the light goes out that means I broke the circuit and found the short.

[andybob]

No I definitely get what you are saying. Basically when I wiggle wires around and unplug stuff, if the light goes out that means I broke the circuit and found the short.

atta boy.

Probably one of the best ways to hunt down shorts. A guy I worked with had a special bulb he rigged up just for stuff like this.

What fuse is it that keeps blowing?