Big 3 Help!!!

[Brandon X]

Alright, so I started my big 3 a few days ago (which is a HUGE pain in the ass) and I need a little help.

I have the battery negative to chassis complete, and the chassis to engine complete. The problem im having is with the alternator to battery positive. For those who have done the big 3 how did you do this? The original alt to battery wire has a fuse built in, so did you guys put a fuse in between your alt and battery? I tried doing this and when I went to connect the wire to the battery, all I did was touch the battery, and the fuse blew. Why? Could I be doing something wrong? Should the negative be disconnected before I try connecting the alt to battery positive?

I hope to be finishing this in a couple days and I don't want my battery to blow up or my alternator to crap out!

 

[fyremanpat]

I left my orginal fused distribution block. Batt to dist block then dist block to alt...look at my pics to see

 

[Brandon X]

I left my orginal fused distribution block. Batt to dist block then dist block to alt...look at my pics to see

I can't really make it out in your pictures. There is a distribution block already in our engines? Or you put one there? Should I go and buy a distro block and then do what you did? The thing I don't understand is why it blew a 250 amp fuse when I went to connect it to the battery. All I did was touch it and it blew. I'm not understanding it at all.

 

[drowndindreams]

did you replace the wire? or did you just add on to it? i added onto it and I got no problems at all. and when your doing all this your battery should be disconnected.

 

[Brandon X]

I replaced. Maybe I should just add on to it. Also im not sure but I think we had the negative connected to the battery. I'll make sure to not have it connected this time.

 

[riviera rider]

i didnt have any problems going straight to the alt but i also upgraded to a 190a dc power alt heres some pics of my big 17 lol (not literally but i got wires connecting everything haha

i want to add more grounds, i got the original batt to block and i couldnt get to the nut on the block so i left it on and just added one from the battery to the frame, then the frame to the body then im adding one from the batt to the body also lol over kill gotta love it! also running 2 o/1 power wires to my rear 2 batteries

 

[Chrislovessushi]

riveria rider is defintiely the overkill king

 

[riviera rider]

Lol