Fuse locations

Unknown

My 53 Hornet just went dead. No lights, nothing. I am looking at the manual and it tells me that there the "main circuit breaker is incorporated in the car headlight switch". How do I reset it??? I found the aux. fuse, and that is intact.



Is there something I am missing here??



Help!!!

Geoff

There are two circuit breakers, the main and auxilary. you need to check with a meter that you are getting voltage to the input of the one behind the light switch. Normally if there is a short the breaker will cycle on and off, until the short is removed. it sounds like you have a break somewhere between the "B. terminal on the voltage regulator and the circuit breaker. The coinnections are from the starter solenoid, to the voltage regulator, to the Horn relay, to the main circuit breaker, to the auxilary circuit breaker on the light switch, and you should have voltage all the way. You reallly need a wiring diagram and a volt meter to trace this. Good luck,

Geoff.

Geoff

Further, - I assume you have checked the battery connections?

Unknown

I don´t know if you´ve fixed your problem yet, sounds like the battery´s gone dead, but on my 51 Hornet there´s another circuit breaker mounted on the headlight switch. You pull out the headlight switch behind the instrumen board, and there you have it in the bottom of the switch. Disconnect the battery first, otherwise you might cause a little sparking behind the instruments.

nick s

the_vettguy wrote:

My 53 Hornet just went dead. No lights, nothing. I am looking at the manual and it tells me that there the "main circuit breaker is incorporated in the car headlight switch". How do I reset it??? I found the aux. fuse, and that is intact.

Is there something I am missing here??

Help!!!

as Geoff mentions you need to start tracing out the circuit from the batterry though the rest of the system to find the loss, note that the mention of a fuse indicates that your wiring has changed from the factory design so an original diagram may or may not help.

The circuit breakers as originally used were self-resetting (again as geoff mentiooned you can hear these click on and off if you have a short) and the only fuses were to accessories such as the clock and radio.

If your wiring did maintain the origonal circuit breakers, the main breaker is mounted on a reinforcment from the dash to the firewall, they are about 1.5" x .75" x .75" with two sluds where the wiring connects. the auxiallary for the headlights actually becomes part of the headlight switch as mentioned.

Park_W

If you find you're not getting anything from the battery, don't assume the battery must be bad because the terminals are tight and look OK. Check for voltage at the battery posts themselves, not the cable terminals. You may find you have voltage there. Take the terminals off the battery posts and check for corrosion. It's pretty common to have good looking and tight terminals that are actually corroded and keeping the battery essentially disconnected.