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Electrical Short Finder!!
Martin Offline
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#1
I have been using a electrical short finder from K-D Tools for many years in electrical troubleshooting. I have noticed numerous posts lately on shorts, tough to find opens etc. I thoght this little gadget could help when you run into a tough short to track!
KD builds a simple hand held tool that finds a short fast, simple and easy, and the beauty of it is that you do not have take looms apart, rip up mats or any other work until you find the short.
K-D Part # 2524. The web site gives a very brief description of its use, but it has other uses as well. In brief, if you have a fuse that constantly blows, you hook up the sender to replace the fuse, then begin sweeping the wire harness looking for the pulsating needle. The unit you sweep with looks like a normal amp gauge, other than it is none contact. When the needle stops pullsating, you are in the zone of the short! The Sender that replaces the fuse, sends out an electrical pulse, the the meter can pick up.
You can also hook the sender in line, for instance, when a fusible link melts down. Put the sender in place of the fusible link, and sweep the harness until you find the short. Basically, anywhere you have a short, and you can tap the sender in line, lights whatever, it will track down the spot with little effort.
This little tool has saved me considerable time, effort and well worth what I paid for it many times over. It is also durabel, as I used mine proffesionally for many years, and it has stood the test of time!
Stock 87, no mods, Black with the grey interior.
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23027 Offline
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#2
This is EXACTLY what i'm trying to fix..

I'm at work ordering the part right now haha

Thank you SO much for telling me about this product.. I think it should make my life a hell of a lot easier.

I'll let you know how it turned out for me =]
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302 H.O Swapped.. Bolt ons.. Tremec 3550.. 4.10's.. 18's..
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Pete D Offline
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#3
Just ordered one on line. Thanks Martin
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Martin Offline
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#4
K-D has a bunch of good tools, and have a lot of those "one of" hard to find type of tools, as well as reasonably priced. I still own the original ratching wrench they first made, that had 3/8, 7/16, 1/2 and 9/16 all on one wrench. They don't make it any more as it was prone to easy breakage, but what a handy tool to own. They also have a tool called the NUT Cracker, which I used quite often. Anyone who has tried to take frozen nuts off a stud can relate. If you have the room, the Nut Cracker is sweet tool to have.
It pays to check the catalouge for the tools we tend to use the most, and compare prices, the quality is excellent for the average user!
Martin
Stock 87, no mods, Black with the grey interior.
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Pete D Offline
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#5
This is where I got it and they have a lot of KD tools
http://www.mytoolstore.com/kd/kdbatt07.html
Pete Dunham


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23027 Offline
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#6
Ok so I picked one up at Lordco today..

It has the 2 clamps you put onto or into the blown fuse.. But i'm not exactly sure what it means by how to hook it up.. Do I hook it into where the fuse would go? It certainly wouldn't fit.. And it seems hopeless to clamp it onto the blown fuse because it has plastic around it?

How am I supposed to hook this up?
87 Turbo Coupe
New Heart & Lungs as of 245,225km.
302 H.O Swapped.. Bolt ons.. Tremec 3550.. 4.10's.. 18's..
https://postimg.org/image/efv6lnn35/
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turbot-bird Offline
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#7
might have to add that to the tool box.....
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Martin Offline
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#8
To hook it up to the new style fuse, just take 2 spade style terminal connectors (the male half) shove them into the spot where the blade of the fuse would of went, and clamp to that. Just don't let them touch! I have made up a dummy fuse set to fit about every style out there now. Just a small piece of plastic with and old fuse blade glued thru the center to look like a fuse! I leave enough sticking out the back to clamp the meter sender to.
Martin
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