Out of nowhere, my truck is completely dead. Been running great, was driving, turned it off. Ten minutes later went to start it, and nothing. No dash lights, no headlights, no hazard lights, nothing, not even dim.

But my LED bar light works fine (not wired through the ignition). I put a wire from the battery directly to my on-board air compressor and runs full power, so that pretty much rules out the battery. And the fact the hazard lights won’t come on means it’s not just an ignition issue (I think).

I’ve checked every fuse and connection etc that I could think of.

Any ideas at all? What else could I check? I’m broken down in a very inconvenient location on the side of a major road though a city that doesn’t allow overnight parking. It’s late so I’m already gonna have to spend tonight here in the truck, but hoping to get it going somehow as quickly as possible, before a terrible place to sleep turns into something worse, like my truck getting towed or who knows.

Any help, ideas, thoughts, insults etc of any kind would be greatly appreciated, especially timely ones..


My truck is an 88 pick-up but posting here cause I put a 3.4 v6 in it from a 2000 4Runner. But that was over six years ago something like 70k pretty rough miles ago, so not related to the swap.

 

Nevermind! I got it sorted. It was more of the silliness with that funny fusable link between the battery and that 100 amp fuse.

 

Glad you got it figured out.
Thanks for the update.