Rewiring for fuse panel

[jeepofino]

The on going saga of what started as a simple blower motor replacement has turned into a lot more. Now most of my fuse panel is cold, the wipers and heater fuses have no current. I plan to run new fused wires to each. Should I put in a small fuse panel for these and run it from the battery or off of the solenoid?

 

[Tug-n-pull]

Go direct to the battery with any and all new wireing. I would run a heavy gauge wire back to a terminal block and run each wired circuit with an inline fuse all located at or near the terminal block and labled to know what you are looking at and for. You can get the blade style inline fuse that has a built in weater cap at most electronic shops. Tug

 

[jeepofino]

FUNNY STUFF

Thanks, That seems to be the easiest thing to do at this point. It's an 82 model thats had lots of shade treein' done in the past. All I have is heat and windshield wipers so it don't make sense to go the complete wiring harness route. Maybe after this I can get back to jeepin, and with heat.

 

[XJNick]

rubicon express 4.5" super flex

Hi,

You may also consider placing a large fuseable link or a resetable circuit breaker in the new "main" wire you run to the fusepanel. Placing a means of circuit protection near the main connection to the battery makes everything safer since you no longer would have a long run of unprotected, high-current carring wire in the engine compartment. :mrgreen:

For Example, you would use an 80 amp circuit breaker near the battery which would then serve say four new 20 amp fuses in the new fuse block. 20 x 4 = 80, so the circuit is well protected.

-Nick :!:

 

[Inspector-Gadget]

Hi-Ya Jeepofino,

Tug's and XJNick's suggestions will work to supply power, but the accessories served by the new fuse box will not have power removed when you turn off the ignition key. You will have individually turn-off each gizmo that receives power from the new fuseblock. That might or might not be an important consideration to you.

You could correct that by adding a relay energized by a key-on hot source of power to route battery power to the new fuse block. Then the new fuse block and everything connected to it would be de-powered when the ignition key is turned to "off."

Then again, I suppose you could fix whatever is wrong with the original wiring.

Gadget

 

[jeepofino]

I think I may have found the main problem. The relay switch going from the key switch with the rod going down the colum(I don't know what it's called) but it has 2 plugs with 4 wires in each seems to be bad. the blinkers will work when it is in the acc. position and also when the jeep is running if you just barely turn the key toward the crank position. I believe it's probably worn and will try to get a replacement today. I do have the alternator charging now and things are looking better. Thanks for all the input. Maybe my problem will help someone else having similar troubles.