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So I swapped in a different transmission over the last while, and yesterday I finally got it all back together and working again, drove it up and down the block a couple times, and then decided it was time to take it on the highway to make sure everything was good. Well I start driving and no more than 5 min from my place the whole car dies, so I pull over and try to start, it cranks but absolutely no spark. SOOO I open the hood and check the fuses, only to find that the ECU fuse is burned out, I think hmm, that's an easy fix. Well nobody in town sells those stupid huge fuses when it's 11 at night on a saturday. So I decide that I just want to drive the car home, so I find some metal object to jam in-between the 2 prongs just to get the car home ( i know this was a bad idea, I was desperate to get the car home at this point). I crank again and all of a sudden I see smoke rolling over the engine bay, I stop immediately at this point (though I have to say I was tempted to just keep going and start the thing on fire just to watch it burn). So now I have to figure out where on earth a wire got pinched or shorted when I put the transmission back in and put the motor back into place.
Sorry for the long rant, but has anybody had any experience with this? I'd like to have an idea as to where to look for this problem.
Also, when I put the subframe back up, I had to recouple the steering in the car, and now my wheel is horribly crooked (upside down in fact), is there a way to change that without dropping the entire rack again? There must be a way to take the steering wheel off and reposition it.
Sorry for the long rant, but has anybody had any experience with this? I'd like to have an idea as to where to look for this problem.
Also, when I put the subframe back up, I had to recouple the steering in the car, and now my wheel is horribly crooked (upside down in fact), is there a way to change that without dropping the entire rack again? There must be a way to take the steering wheel off and reposition it.