Some Help with Wiring

[Exit98]

So I re-installed my now beautiful clock I got back from Nick and am very disappointed that it doesn't start to run.

I know it's not Nick, so I look in the Owner's Manual and learn that the clock is a on a fuse circuit with the cigar lighter, Courtesy light and hazard warning and so forth. It also says 16 amps "IN SEPARATE HOLDER" but it doesn't say where the holder is.

I know the courtesy lamp doesn't work on my new Fiat, and from prior experience I've never touched or tried the hazard lights and I quit cigars along time ago. So I pull out the courtesy light and as you can see its toast:





Looking in the hole on the passenger side of the upper console I see an orange plastic tube and a yellow one. The yellow one comes all the way out. It has a red wire going in, and one coming out. The coming out one isn’t attached to anything. I pry it open and there is a fuse inside, but the wires are soldered to the fuse on both ends. Hard to tell but the fuse looks intact.

The orange one doesn’t come out as far, and may be connected to something and presumably it has a similar fuse inside.







Is the yellow one the seatbelt buzzer and interlock, which I know is disconnected, or maybe the EGR indicator?

If the Orange one is the one I’m looking for for the clock, do I need to solder the wires to the new fuse. Gonna be hard to reach in there to do that.

Thanks for any tips you can offer.

[spider2081]

I have a diagram for a 76 spider. Not sure if its complete. I shows a black wire feeds the inline fuse for the clock, from the feed terminal of fuse 1 or A in the fuse box. There are 2 wires on the other side of the inline fuse one is violet and the other is red.
The fuse holders you show in the photos don't appear to have the correct color wires on them to be for the clock. I think they are for the radio. One might be radio power and one might be a keep alive for the radio display/clock if it has one.

I would check carefully behind fuse "A" in the fuse block. make sure the connections there are clean and tight. The feed to the fuse comes direct from the alternator output terminal and according to my diagram is a black wire. Right next to it should be another black wire. These wires actually make a common connection at the feed side of fuse "A".
Once you locate this junction you might be able to physically follow the black wires. One will go through the firewall to the alternator. The other goes to the fuse holder you are looking for.

Hope this is some help.

[Exit98]

Thanks Spider,

Tomorrow I'll see if I can follow that black wire and see where it leads.

I'm sure you are right about the orange and yellow fuse holders. They are not Fiat items, no doubt for the aftermarket radio as you said.

From the manual though it would seem there is somewhere an inline fuse for the clock, hazard and cigar lighter.Following your wire should lead me to it.

[Exit98]

Thanks Spider 2081,

Fuse holder found. Fuse replaced. Nick's clock is ticking away.

I though it would be hidden behind the upper console and i didn't want to pull that apart right now. You solved my little problem.