1990 Acura Integra need electical help BAD!!

1990 ACURA INTEGRA
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MY1STTEG
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Electrical problem
1990 Acura Integra 4 cyl Front Wheel Drive Manual

K I TRYED JUMPING MY CAR THEN IT ARCKED ON MY INTAKE AFTER THAT IT WOULDNT STAT THEN I REPLACED MY MAIN FUSES UNDER THE HOOD THEN IT STARTED AND SMOKE CAME FROM MY INSTURMENT CLUSTER NOW IT WONT START AND IF I PRESS MY BRAKS OR TURN MY HEAD LIGHT SWITCH THE INSURMENT CLUSTER LIGHTS UP AS IF I TURNED MY KEY MY HEADLIGHTS OR TAIL LIGHTS DONT WORK AND I CAN HEAR MY RELAYS CLICKING TRACED IT TO THE 2 ON MY FUSE BOX AND THE ONE UNDER MY STEERING WHEEL IS IT MY RELAYS OR FUSE BOX OR BOTH? IM CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED AND HAVE TO DO A FREE Q PLEASE HELP ME I RELY ON THIS CAR TO GET ME TO TOWN TO FIND JOBS
Jan 2, 2010 at 11:16 PM
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Hi MY1STTEG,

Recheck all ground connections to see if any are broken/damaged.
Jan 10, 2010 at 8:13 AM
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[quote:516e54509f="KHLow2008"]Hi MY1STTEG,

Recheck all ground connections to see if any are broken/damaged.[/quote:516e54509f]

i did what happened is i hust said screw it and replaced the main harness everything was fine till i wired my toggle switch the way it was when i got the car now im back to squar one i found out that the back of my cluster where the tach is is screwed in is burnt bad so im thinking that thats burning up and its blowing all my relays is that possible?
Jan 10, 2010 at 6:40 PM
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KHLOW2008
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A burnt meter cluster or wireharness means something is shorting and that can cause the relays to go haywire.

When wireharnesses gets burnt, they would fuse together and this would cause shorting to other circuits.
Jan 11, 2010 at 7:58 AM