a little later I dug into the fuse box
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back from a long weekend, tonight's miniproject is to prepare to energize a car that's been sitting for 21 years. I have this crazy paranoia about fires in cars and it'd be a shame to see this one go up in smoke, so I'll be approaching the electrics carefully. I want to keep things as stockish as possible, but get it sorted well. so... yank all the fuses, inventory what's going on in the fuse box before hooking up the new odyssey battery, which will eventually be tied down with
this setup from Rennline or similar minus the remote switch. The switch location is pretty secure in the frunk but I definitely want a tidy cutoff. Once the battery is hooked up I'll then test each circuit one by one and pray there's no rodent damage.
on to the photos: I usually stick the fuses down to a piece of tape to keep them in order
then cleaned the fusebox out with
THIS STUFF (yeah, left the short fuses in there for the time being)
then, after doing a bunch of wiring diagram studying, I made a table of what to
expect in the fuse box vs what I found. Everything seemed to be in order with the exception of location H which is a lighting circuit but had a 16A fuse in it. the factory wiring book shows an 8A in that location. could be a sloppy swap by the prior owner, could be something else. ah, the joys of limited production italian cars. we'll see. to get the car
running requires what appears to be only location A
I need to pop the relays out still, and should probably replace them all. They look like standard fare, nothing fancy.
more to come later! this is a slow and steady project. I did some work on the paint, too... but I'll save those pictures for another day after the whole job is done.