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Old 01-22-2010, 07:56 PM   #1
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What is this little do-dad?

I know it holds a small glass quick blow fuse, but what dose it go to?

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Old 01-22-2010, 08:16 PM   #2
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Re: What is this little do-dad?

don't look factory to me....unplug it and see what stops working lol
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Old 01-22-2010, 09:00 PM   #3
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don't look factory to me....unplug it and see what stops working lol
haha I have!!! everything works fine after its unpluged. I broke one (there are two) and had to replace it with an after market lade type ( i didnt have too, but id hate to mess sumthin up because i didnt have a fuse)

id really like to know what the hell these things are, all schamatics that ive seen do not have this in them.

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Old 01-22-2010, 09:05 PM   #4
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Re: What is this little do-dad?

looks like something someone just added in or something, to find out wut it goes to just trace the wire all the way back to where it comes from your bound to find out that way.
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Old 01-22-2010, 09:16 PM   #5
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looks like something someone just added in or something, to find out wut it goes to just trace the wire all the way back to where it comes from your bound to find out that way.
my wireloom goes waaaay inbetween the tranny and firewall, i was hoping to avoid that hahahaha
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Old 01-22-2010, 09:27 PM   #6
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Re: What is this little do-dad?

does your amp gauge work? there is one of those fuses near the battery. i was told back in the seventies that this had to do with the amp gauge that usually stopped working within a couple of years. old money.
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Old 01-22-2010, 10:10 PM   #7
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does your amp gauge work? there is one of those fuses near the battery. i was told back in the seventies that this had to do with the amp gauge that usually stopped working within a couple of years. old money.
yes it dose, (amp guage)
this is located on the firewall where all the wires pass out of (you can see it in the picture on the right)

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Old 01-22-2010, 10:21 PM   #8
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Re: What is this little do-dad?

what another visalia user thats crazy small world after all
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