I've had some problems with my 1.0 OHV Nova lately, it began to chug and cut out and got worse and worse. I took it to work one morning earlier in the week and it died altogether. As I towed it with the ignition on, smoke rised from the dashboard. Anyways, I got a guy to come to work and look at it, he got it started by just holding the key til it fired up properly. I got it home, and found damaged wires in the engine bay, they had shorted.
The first sign of damage was here, below the wiper motor. The burnty wire is clear coated, and seems to join to a black wire, indicated by my finger:
Here's the offending wire, split from its clear coating:
Ans so the wire runs through here...
To the inside of the car:
And follows this batch of wires:
And continues up to here, where the wires were more badly burnt:
The wire seems to back on itself a few times:
And connects to the black wire again here:
Does anybody know what these wires are for? It looks like a previous bodge? Does anybody know the cause of the shorting?
I thought I'd ask on here before stripping any further.
Thanks in advance!