No power going to fuse 20

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Joseph041
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Post Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:42 am

Brianmoooore wrote:
Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:30 pm
There's no practical way to remove the board, but you can loosen things up just enough to get access by pulling off the white multi pin plug, and cutting the odd cable tie in the fuse box and behind the dash, where the wiring duct from the bottom of the fuse box enters the cabin.

Really starting to give up on getting this thing wired back. Trying to think if I would be able to change out the whole fuse box maybe ? Can’t wrap my head around getting This copper back together on this circuit board.
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Post Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:42 am

Find the end of the duct in the cabin, behind the dash, where all the wires come down from the fusebox, and try to push the bundle up the duct a little. Look around and see if any particular wire or group of wires is restricting you, and do something about it, be it cut a cable tie or two, pull out a plug, or just gently pull.
Unplug the white plug in the fusebox, and gently pull the wiring upwards, watching what in particular is restricting you, and addressing it.
From your pic. it looks like you have just about enough access as it is. You can see both of the points that you have to solder to, and it's not really a difficult repair if you have a decent soldering iron.
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Brianmoooore wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:42 am
Find the end of the duct in the cabin, behind the dash, where all the wires come down from the fusebox, and try to push the bundle up the duct a little. Look around and see if any particular wire or group of wires is restricting you, and do something about it, be it cut a cable tie or two, pull out a plug, or just gently pull.
Unplug the white plug in the fusebox, and gently pull the wiring upwards, watching what in particular is restricting you, and addressing it.
From your pic. it looks like you have just about enough access as it is. You can see both of the points that you have to solder to, and it's not really a difficult repair if you have a decent soldering iron.

Hello, I took a break from the car and now I am back. I hate that I love these things. It is back to being my daily and still no ac. I have repaired the copper line in question. Tested both ends for power and power is there but I seem to have the same issue. My fuses from 17-21 are getting no power. So no power to the blower motor or windows. I grounded pin 85 of k5 with a ground light and the blower did kick on. So I’m thinking I have a ground issue now ? I tested green/black ground at the starter at it seemed fine. Getting lost in these wiring diagrams.