Not being super familiar with your vehicle (i'm super with jeep cjs and other carburated rigs)..........i just looked up "fusible links" for yours at two online parts stores.........they show none. I reckon you are fully fuse protected
As far as surges, bad connections to the battery from the alternator may be/ or could cause this to occur
A good while back, we used to get our rigs running, then snatch the negative cable off of the battery. This would verify whether the alternator was working or not, if it kept on running. Usually when you did it, the load of the battery disappeared, any lights that were on would get brighter and sometimes the engine would pick up a little.................all of this was a "surge"
Doing this to a modern rig, is just asking for problems..........an alternator's regulator going bad could cause a surge, as it is "supposed to" keep voltage levels between certain values......on old stuff, this keeps the battery from overcharging/ melting/ catching on fire/ and i've even seen them explode!
On new stuff, the same is true, except now, the computer crap voltages must remain constant to prevent them from glitching.
Now then..................back to..... "doing this to a modern rig, is just asking for problems"
Depending on the vehicle's set up, the alternator's "charge" has got to get back to the battery in some way/ shape/ or form. This may come about thru several wires going into the battery's clamp or even occur at a "tee" or "intersection" prior to getting to the clamp.
Think about this......as an example:
Two wires enter "joe's" battery clamp, the clamp is not tight or has an issue....maybe temperature changes, or dampness is affecting slight corrosion on it............so, we have an "intermittent" connection from the clamp to the battery.......
But!!!....the alternator's connection and the vehicle's connection to the clamp are 100% bullet proof!
Every time the clamp (or other similar occurring situations) intermittently loses it's connection to mr. Battery..................................isn't this the same thing as snatching the clamp loose on granpa's '65 ford truck to see if the alternator/ generator works???????
This is one of the reasons i want everybody to "attack" the connections, as i described in my link!
Even though you probably think i'm of no help to you, i do what i can.........and i keep the jeep cjs going!...........i'm grabbing you two diagrams from "mitchell i" .......i can get more, there are like hundreds.....be specific in what you would like, should you want others, it takes a while to find and process them thru
1) charging circuit
2) starting circuit
These are the most helpful things i have found when figgering something out
Http://www.2carpros.com/questions/2007-ford-taurus-tune-up
Since looking at the diagrams, they show fusible links, there are different types, some look like fuses.......others, like in my jeeps, look like wires.....
See pic 3on my '46 willys, wires "3" and "4" are fusible links (one is marked with a tag, the other is not) ---one goes to the alternator---the other runs the rest of the jeep (feeds the fuse box)..............i know all of this because i might near, built "willy" from scratch....to include every wire and electrical component
When ones like this fry, the insulation may sorta be bubbly, may be melted and drippy, ...sucker may look just fine......but if you tug on it, the insulation may stretch out like a rubber band (wire is "vaporized" inside)..........you can also "poke" pins/ needles on either side of the link and do a continuity test with a voltmeter to insure it is intact
Keep us posted
The medic
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Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 AT 5:04 PM
