Delica Canada | Mitsubishi Van Club

Howdy,
So, long time since I’ve been on here.. I had to park my ‘91 l300 2 years ago due to some mechanical reasons. Then life got busy and complicated. But now I’ve found time to give my van some well deserved love as a winter project.. just have to get it to my garage at work.

I bought a new battery for it and, thinking this would be the easiest part of the whole day, installed it. Not a light, no door open light on the dash, not even a little spark as I connect the negative terminal. The connections all look good and clean, It didn’t appear that I missed anything to connect and it’s definitely positive to positive, neg to neg. All the fuses that I can find are good. The battery is charged and my auxiliary cabin heater (which gets power from the battery but doesn’t use the vans electrical system) has power to it..it lights up and has a little spark when I connect it.

So it has to be the fusible link,right? I pulled that apart and checked the continuity on each link. Each link is good.

So I’m alttle stumped. Any ideas? Other than rodents chewing something important that I can’t find, I have no idea.

Any help is appreciated.

It's a bit odd that nothing works! Surely rodents wouldn't have chewed through *everything*. I'm guessing your cabin heater is wired directly to the battery.

The fusible link block is connected to the wiring harness through a couple of big plastic plugs up high in the battery bay, have they come apart?

All the plugs in the battery bay seem connected.. I’d bet they’d take a lot of work to pry apart since I doubt they’ve ever even separated.

Ill have to try tracing lines tomorrow.

try testing voltage drop rather than continuity?

Trace it ALL the way back. Start by voltage testing the terminal clamps. Step it up from there. The main fuse, front and back side. Etc.

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Well, gotta give up. Everything looks fine but I’ve run out of time.. it’ll have to sit this winter out,again, and get towed to my work-place in the spring. I’m personally betting it’s the battery relay.. I gave it a few good whacks but no luck. Oh well.

Gotta start cutting wood.

I’m way up in northern Manitoba.

vstrom wrote:I’m way up in northern Manitoba.

Nice to know of an other Delica in Manitoba. I sm way down south in Morden. Where is wsy up north exactly?

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