Help Needed With Electrical Problems

[evojay71 0]

I've just changed the motor in 1900 GTI road rally car and I now have a problem when I connect up the battery the main yellow lead to the resisiter on the front panel is shorting out,this stops when I also disconect the one 2 pin plug from the auxilary fuse box. I took time to label all wires when taking them off so I would know where everything goes when it was time to reconnect everything. I know that this woud be hard to diagnose but could anyone give me a few pointers to check out without taking everything apart again as I'm not that good with electrics tbh and have a rally next weekend so not much time to sort it either,by the way its an 89 phase 1.5. Many thanks

[Anthony 1,003]

You haven't got the connector for the fans (grey) and the power connector for the fan loom (black) around the wrong way have you? That creates a big short via the yellow and green (earth) cable if you do...

[evojay71 0]

You haven't got the connector for the fans (grey) and the power connector for the fan loom (black) around the wrong way have you? That creates a big short via the yellow and green (earth) cable if you do...

 

Hi Anthony,and the answer to that is yes I had,looks like my masking tape labelling system wasn't so fool proof after all, many thanks