Hi everyone, awesome website, these forums have helped me so much already. I've had a few Toyota vans over the past~6 years, and I just got my most recent about 2 weeks ago. ~300k miles manual 1985 with the 3Y engine. Driving this morning with heat blower on, turn signal on, van kind of shakes and then the blower turned off. Turn signals also don't work. Got to work, parked. 8 hours later come out to start car, won't turn over. Check battery voltage, fine at 12.36V, check fuses in fuse box, none blown(dome light fuse missing). Headlights still work, high beam and low beam. Starter, turn signals, and dash blower don't work. After reviewing these forums(fusible link thread via another thread), it looks like it is probably my AM1 fusible link that went...any ideas why this might happen? I just put in a new alternator, and the 3 prong plug cluster doesn't clip in like it should, it felt like it had backed out a little, but if the 3 prong alternator plug fell out while the engine was running, would it blow the AM1 fusible link?

I can't actually look at the car right now(locked up behind NOAA gates), but I'm hoping/expecting it is the AM1 link that blew. Any ideas where to get a replacement? I'm thinking junkyard, or is there and easy way to just jammy a 60amp fuse in there?


Thanks for any input, and I'll update tomorrow after checking out that link.

Cheers,

Alex