Hey guys, picked up a ‘98 legacy L wagon the other day. 2.2 5mt.
Upon noticing the rear defrost and cruise buttons weren’t lighting up, I checked fuses. Cruise fuse was popped. But the rear defrost wasn’t. I open up the fuse panel under the hood and notice at some point, the fuseable link had gotten REALLY hot. It looked new, so I assume it was replaced. But there’s burn marks on the inside of the cover.
The harness coming off it looks fine and nothing else looks fried. However, I did notice when I was checking fuses under the dash that the Main Fan fuse was just missing. So I put a 20a in and the passenger side cooling fan kicked on and won’t shut off. Car isn’t hot.
Everything is pointing towards the two wire coolant temp sensor. My thought is that when that short happened (guessing some idiot put jumper cables on backwards) that it may have melted the contact inside the sensor and is telling the ecu the engine hot. Going to check the sensor tomorrow morning.
Anyone have any ideas about the rear defrost and cruise not working? The AC won’t kick on either (probably related to CTS) Anyone have a link to a FSM? I’d be willing to buy an actual FSM as I tend to buy a lot of these 2nd gen cars. I also have a 1998 Brighton 5mt.
I also noticed a couple wires going nowhere near the back of the engine on top.
thank you