New engine, new MT swap, NO START

[lostforawhile]

Yes ive read this thread, He said the instrument background lights works but the idiot lights dont work.
When the fuse blows for the Back up light switch it blows the background lights , and tail lights. The oil pressure light, and CEL still worked....along with the rest of the idiot lights....
Ive had my reverse lights wires messed up a few times now and all the times thats what happend, the idoit lights still worked and the car still would start and run ...

I would if its one of the grounds behind the dash. They tend to come loose over time..

the tailights have nothing do do with the back up lights, they are on the same main fuse as the headlights, the headlights split into four circuits after the switch, the headlights and taillights have power coming into the switch from one 40 amp main fuse, then it splits into 1 circuit for the taillights and dash lights, and into two more circuits for low and high beams, those two circuits are split into four more fuses one for each low beam and high beam, the brake lights are on the horn fuse, the back up lights are on the gauge,instrument cluster fuse, the oil pressure is a different circuit.

[lostforawhile]

the only thing i can see as far as the clutch safety switch, is since the computer directly controls the coils in the main relay,both of them, it may be an input that inhibits the main relay from operating.

[lostforawhile]

Ok if that back up light fuse is blown, it will knock out the back up lights, the oil pressure warning light,fuel warning light,fuel gauge,temp gauge,safety indicator, brake warning lamp,and whatever else is on connection 6 and connection 9, haven't traced them yet.

[ecogabriel]

Perhaps a stupid suggestion, but here it goes:

Is it possible to re-connect the A/T switch where it used to be?
If so, by leaving the switch in P you should get power to the engine as before, so it should power up again (save for a blown fuse).
If it runs, then the problem was in the wiring you used to bridge the switch. I read the wires had similar colors so it would be quite easy to make a mistake there
At least you may reduce the troubleshooting scope a bit; and if it does not work at least you know that it should have, indication the problem(s) are somewhere else.

My 0.002

[Dr_Snooz]

The car runs!!! Woohoo!!! I wired everything up correctly. Back up lights work and the interlock is bypassed. I tracked the circuit from the battery and discovered that when I was swapping the pedal box, I didn't reconnect the ignition switch to the fuse box. If you contort yourself into a pretzel and look through this opening:



You'll see a connector that looks like this.



Jeepers. Can't imagine how I missed that one.

The car starts and runs beautifully! Thanks to everyone for the great help.

[A18A]

lol hahaha always the simple things, glad u got it running (Y)

[Pico]

Good Stuff, glad to see you got her going

[redaztec]

Glad you found the problem and got it running!

[2ndGenGuy]

w00t! Nice work man!! Glad she's running! 5 speed swap FTW!!

[nswst8]

Great job! Have fun.

[Civic Accord Honda]

Sweet stuff snooz! Congrats on getting the beast running, How does it feel to know you built everything yourself?

[lostforawhile]

as far as the cruise let me know i have the wring diagram for you, the pink wire that came out of the shifter now has to go to the clutch switch,

[lostforawhile]

here snooze, it should be the pink wire at the shifter plug, it grounds in all forward gears. it goes to the clutch switch, should also be pink, and the black wire at the clutch switch goes to ground.

[ecogabriel]

The car runs!!! Woohoo!!!

Jeepers. Can't imagine how I missed that one.

The car starts and runs beautifully! Thanks to everyone for the great help.

I contorted myself over there a while ago to fix the antenna. I fixed it but forgot to reconnect the cruise control box. It is quite bigger than the one you missed.
I felt quite stupid but the working position is dreadful. You did an awful lot of down there and everywhere else man. At least you got it figured out.

Anyway.... congrats for getting the beast back to work!!! New car now, and you OWN the work! Enjoy!