Very short 1st test drive of my 70 K5!!!

[Yukon Jack]

Originally Posted by jaros44

You might want to run a continuity check as well, might narrow it down a bit, but if you're blowing fuses you have a dead short. Someplace your 12volts is hitting ground.....JMHO

I'm a little (okay alot) electrical stupid - what is a continuity check and how do you do it? Being a dead short should help me find the problem easier I would think - I will start working my way around the involved wires and see what I can find.

[jaros44sr]

Originally Posted by Yukon Jack

I'm a little (okay alot) electrical stupid - what is a continuity check and how do you do it? Being a dead short should help me find the problem easier I would think - I will start working my way around the involved wires and see what I can find.

Ya well me to, that's why I have a meter. That does all the work. Do you have a meter w/ohms setting. Basically, it will tell you if a certain wire has a break in it, but you don't want to test it with any voltage on that wire. Makes the meter do all kinds of funny things, and I don't mean haha funny

Just think of water flow, same thing with electricity, power will flow to the back of your truck thru those 4 wires, you just want to see if the flow is there. That's continuity. Water flow will get you all wet, electric flow will knock you on your arse