On the back of the tow truck again.....

[Pete22]

My ute just got picked up for a free ride to Nowra City Nissan........lack of electrical supply to the started, dash, headlights etc etc etc. Even the door locks won't operate. Couldn't find any fuseable links/fuses blown and did the usual microsoft solution approach of disconnecting the battery.....still no joy. So over to Mr Nissan to find the problem. That just fooked my weekend's fishing - bit hard to tow the boat with the Mrs' Barina.

PS - it is not a battery problem.....not only is is just 2 months old but all the test show it to be at full strength.

 

[4BYFOR]

You may find out its something really simple and piss you right off

 

[jjohn]

There's another fuse box hidden under the bonnet on the passenger side up near the fire wall. I forget which ones are in there.
The lid is a box as well attatched to the bottom half after opening it by wiring.

 

[d22dave]

Take The d40 fishing, straight in The,,,,

 

[Pete22]

Take The d40 fishing, straight in The,,,,

Only problem with that approach Dave is that the bloody thing is sitting on the back of a tow truck and locked up in his yard until Monday morning

 

[Old.Tony]

Mine did that. Master fusible link gone. Very annoying!

 

[Pete22]

Mine did that. Master fusible link gone. Very annoying!

Yep that's what it is Tony.....bloody genuine Nissan part is $87. I will make sure I get the old one back and see if I can repair it.

 

[4 naving]

Is that the one hanging on the side of the battery.

 

[Pete22]

Is that the one hanging on the side of the battery.

Yeah off the positive terminal

 

[KraftyPg]

I haven't looked closely at that on my car, is it the kind of thing you could replace on the side of the road with the usual tools in your kit if you had a spare?

 

[Dave]

Happy John Pm'd me and said you should trade it for a Dmax.

 

[KraftyPg]

Yeah but even dead on the back of a truck it's worth more than a Dmax.

 

[Dave]

It was probably a Isuzu tilt tray truck. Haha.

 

[KraftyPg]

Yeah but the Isuzu was on the faltbed of a Kenworth.

 

[Dave]

As long as it wasn't a Freightliner aka Freightshaker, the D40 would of fallen apart. Haha.

 

[Old.Tony]

I haven't looked closely at that on my car, is it the kind of thing you could replace on the side of the road with the usual tools in your kit if you had a spare?

You can bypass it with fencing wire from the battery post to the lug that takes power to the rest of the car. Solder doesn't like sticking to it.

 

[KraftyPg]

Dammit I stopped carting fence wire around when we sold the farm.

I'll take one and make it remote from the glove box!!

 

[Old.Tony]

I wouldn't worry about carrying fencing wire around. There's thousands upon thousands of km of that shit laid all around the country. Just take some wire cutters with you.

 

[KraftyPg]

Good thinking, and if I use Barbed wire it would stop some dodgy bastard stealing the cabling.

 

[Pete22]

Update

After waiting a couple of days for a new fusible link block it was fitted and promptly blew again. Now going through a full check to try and find where the short might be.....I'm thinking that something was disturbed during the replacement of the timing chain last week and they are now also of that opinion. Just where this goes is now anyone's guess at the moment but I'm guessing that I won't have a car for a few days yet.