Battery wasnt tied down good enough and let go and fell off the tray backwards and broke a plastic mount of the passenger side inner fender. there are 2 screws, one has two wires conected to it and the other screw had one wire. the bottom of the screws were touching some kind of copper plate. what exactly is this piece? simply putting the wires together gave me absolutely no spark either.

 

Are you talking about the starter solenoid(relay)? Did it get broke off? That would be the piece that the large battery + cable goes to.

 

no its doesnt mount on the inside of the fender, it mounts on top of the plastic inner fender right behind the battery. i wish i could put a pic up lol

 

Put pictures of it in your Album here and either use the IMG code to make them show up in your posts, or else give the link to your Album.

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Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums - boggmaster's Album: Garage - Black Bird

 

That piece is not stock from Ford, someone has added it. It looks like a circuit breaker that is busted up, but that's a guess.

Do you have any power to anything on the truck? Do the headlights work? The domelight? The radio when the key is turned?

 

I know i have headlights cause itowed it back off the trail when it was dark out. And i believe i have poeer to the dome light as well. The radio doesnt work anyways havent bothered with it since i got the truck

 

Got to look at it again today. I have headlights but no dome light. I also have power at the coil, but nothing at the coil wire connecting to the distributor cap. Could the battery breaking that piece be related to a bad coil? There are 2 wires on one screw and one on another. One goes to the starter solenoid, one to the radio, and the third is a thicker orange wire that runs down along the frame and is then cutoff with nothing attached and no connector

 

If your battery busted loose and shorted , you need to ck all fuses and fuse links . Fuse links look like a wire but are slow blow fuses .The broken pice is an aftermarket breaker .

 

Ok. I forgot to say i only had about 1.5 volts at the coil, whereas it should be around 7 if i understand correctly

 

Take your meter and poke around the fuse box. There should be a group of fuses that have battery voltage all the time. With the key in run, most all the fuses should have 12v.

There is a fat yellow wire that comes from the starter solenoid area, goes through the firewall, and goes over to a splice. At this splice it splits up, on branch feeds the ignition switch and the other branch feeds the hot all the time part of the fuse box. You need to see if this yellow wire is still good.

The headlights are fed from a splice under the hood near the solenoid, up near where the yellow wire is fed also. The headlights work, so that is telling us part of this circuit at the very start is working.

If you are getting power at the fuse box, then that tells us the main yellow wire is good.

 

Well Here All It Was Was The Ground For The Msd Box. Towed It Home Just To End Up Finding That Out