Issues with throttle

[Rick@Amazon]

I'll give you a call this morning to make sure your ok Jason. Chuck's right that groung could be a big problem.

 

[jayman33]

Thanks Rick, I went and bought a throttle body from the local shop for cheap. Havent been able to touch the car too much today (8 year anniversary) my wife banned me from the car. Ill put it on tonight and see if it works. Dont know how it broke, maybe i hit it during install? Again Rick, thanks for walking me thru it, need to study up on this a bit more. Thanks Chuck for taking the time to look over it, ill let you guys know the outcome.

 

[jayman33]

So now the same fuse keeps blowing (15 right under 5) which totally shuts the car off. Show i up it to 20? It happens just driving, dont even get on it. Any suggestions?

 

[jayman33]

Fuse F40, coil on plugs. I put a fuse in and it just popped.

 

[chuck@evoperform]

I don't have access to circuit diagrams right now, but it almost sounds like it may be something to do with the intercooler pump. The intercooler pump wiring ties into the radio capacitor at the back of the passenger side head. Try disconnecting the I/C harness back there and plug the capacitor back in to the factory harness and see what happens.

You do not want to put a larger fuse in, you need to figure out where the issue is.

 

[jayman33]

As soon as the fuse goes the intercooler pump stops working. What if the intercooler pump is the issue? Is it normal to disconnect from the radio capicator wiring? Would it still work? I keep looking at the wiring and everything looks good. I did ground that wire from the previous picture, maybe I should ground elsewhere but I don't even know what that goes to.
I put new spark plugs in and gapped them to .32, would a coil plug have gone bad? This is getting a bit frustrating.

Merry Christmas by the way.

 

[chuck@evoperform]

The intercooler pump is isolated away from that circuit by a relay, so if the pump were bad, it would blow the fuse that is inline to the relay, and not the ignition coil fuse.

No, it is not "normal" to disconnect the wire from the radio capacitor, but i want you to do that and fire up the car and do a very short test drive to see jif the fuse blows. If it still does, then the issue may a bad coil (not very likely as these things are pretty robust), or something else entirely that i just cant think of right at the moment.

 

[jayman33]

Thanks, will do

 

[chuck@evoperform]

I just checked the wiring diagrams, and from what I can see, that fuse connects to the ignition coils and the capacitors (one on each side of the engine) only. This leads me to believe that somehow, the wire leading from capacitor on the passenger side to the relay for the intercooler relay is somehow shorted to ground.

 

[jayman33]

It seems like the fuse blows after the car gets warmed up. Yesterday i couldnt even put a new fuse in without it blowing just by me turning the key on, car didnt even have to run. That again was after the car was warmed up.

 

[jayman33]

So after looking at my intercooler relay I happened to put that on top of the fuse so it wasn't touching any metal. Think that may have been the problem?

 

[chuck@evoperform]

Can you snap a pic so I can see what you are referring to there?

 

[jayman33]

The relay and fuse to the intercooler next to the fuse box on the passenger side. In the instructions it had the relay go on than the plastic fuse case, I switched it up and maybe that was causing an issue. I took the fuse out of the intercooler fuse case, as soon as that touched metal a huge spark came out of it. I don't know how it could be shorted to the ground anywhere. The car only has 5500 miles on it so I don't think any coils could have gone bad already.

Also do you think this may have caused some throttle issues as well?

 

[chuck@evoperform]

Not sure. Thats pretty much what I do with mounting the fuse holder and relay. Did you take and unhook the intercooler trigger wire from the capacitor and hook that back to the factory connection and fire up the car?

 

[jayman33]

Couldn't yesterday, don't have anymore fuses. Have to do it today.

 

[jayman33]

Fixed, car is up and running. I never checked the wire itself that went to the radio capicator, only the plugs. Well as I was getting ready to undo the plugs I pulled the wire up and noticed that it wasn't zip tied and therefore melted against my exhaust manifold (I'm an idiot). Cut the wire and spliced it back together this time zip tieing to the rest and it started right up. That was a lessoned learned for me, thanks for everyone's help.

 

[chuck@evoperform]

Glad you got it sorted.