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My truck caught fire

Kocher93

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Just kidding, it just smells like burning plastic. So I'm on my computer playin up some video games when my room lights up. My KCs turned on....hmm okay go outside to see if theres someone screwing around with my truck. NOPE interior is filled with smoke so I throw that bitch in neutral and me and my dad roll it out into the street. I disconnect my battery and I look for what happened. From the PO (i should have caught this) there was a hot wire going under my carpet with electrical tape around it. This wore through and caused well some heat, my KCs turned on and saved my truck. Pics tomorrow its dark out there. So now I guess my sunday will be me chasing my POs wiring EVERYWHERE. Sorry for the bad grammar it just happened and I still feel like I smoked a chinese toy trough a pipe.
 
Scared the living hell out of me, just one of those things that will always be in my mind where ever I drive and park that truck.
 
and thats why you fuse close to the battery power . so if a long run wire gets open insulation it will pop the fuse first before the smoke rolls out.
 
Exactly what sweetk30 say, we do that all the time w fueling trucks At work.
 
Yup, I learned a fuse should always be within 18" of the battery.
 
Yea i got extingishters on my rig and fuses this was at the power source on the fire wall (i dont recall the name im litterally in bed writing this) there was a wire just going no where. But shouldnt that be fused?
 
I really need to get some fire extinguishers. One for each car, and some in the house and garage. Some one having one in there car saved my truck once, and a passerby having one in their care saved a co-workers amazing '57 Chevy.
 
Ok going out for supplies, it may be raining but I can make most of this up in the garage. So when you guys say run a fuse 18 inches from the battery, whats the safest way to connect to a battery? what amp fuse? So in my head I'm thinking a wire from the battery to a fuse block on the firewall. The wire to the fuse block will be fused and then all accesories will be fused from that. Sound good? I've just had inline fuses for everything this whole time.
 
Kocher93 said:
So when you guys say run a fuse 18 inches from the battery, whats the safest way to connect to a battery? what amp fuse? So in my head I'm thinking a wire from the battery to a fuse block on the firewall.
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You've got an '89, right?

Look at your fuse panel. See all the slots along the top edge? Those are ALL power feeds (battery 12V, ignition switched 12V, etc), all are on a circuit breaker.

Unless needing to run something really heavy (which should be on a relay anyway, which could still use these slots for powering whatever you use to switch the accessory on/off) you can use these slots, which will keep the wiring cleaner and safer.
 
Almost identical thing happened on my 2dr yukon , previous owner ran the wiring for the kc'S and it started a fire up under the headliner that i caught just in time....Those kc's pull some amps!!
 
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