Suzuki SJ410 - broke into, cut ignition wiring - no power at all to anything

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Suzuki SJ410 - broke into, cut ignition wiring - no power at all to anything

Post by DavidB » Fri Apr 04, 2025 6:48 pm

My SJ was broken into the other day - smackheads attempted to start it somehow - it has two crookloks on it, and is disabled, and also the transfer box is in N and you need to do something else to get it started. They didn't even manage to to get the crookloks off, complete amateurs.

They did however cut all the wires on the ignition barrel - there are four, two whites and two blacks with tracer. I'm getting power to nothing. No lights, etc, nothing. The fuses were pulled out of the fuse box, and they had obviously blown a load. They did take their time on this and got absolutely nowhere and I have it on camera - it's just incredible how little they cared about getting caught. They even launched the tool kit onto the grass in front of the parking and left the door wide open at 2am in the morning. Complete disregard for anything in life or people's property and a complete waste of being.

Anyway - I'm assuming this is the fusable link, but I can't seem to find it. There is a thick white wire running from the battery 12v which terminates about 10 inches into a connector (obvs so it can be replaced), but this has 12v coming through it. I have no idea where the power will have been cut as it's there and the fuse box (which is completely dead). I ran a wire from the battery 12 directly to the 12v on the ignition swithc just to get it somewhere safe from smackhead vermin.
1984 Suzuki SJ410V

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Re: Suzuki SJ410 - broke into, cut ignition wiring - no power at all to anything

Post by ScottieJ » Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:07 pm

Oh man that really sucks to hear.

So yes the fusible link is the wire linking the batt+ to the white-yellow viewtopic.php?t=5983

If that’s not blown then have you should have power to the white-yellow at the ignition barrel. This white-yellow also branches off before the ignition barrel to feed 6 fuses in the fuse box.
Jap SJ410 wiring diagram is here. download/file.php?id=20957&sid=b7bfffac ... &mode=view

If the fuse link hasn’t blown there’s a chance the white-yellow has actually melted somewhere, This wire is the main permanent live feed for the ignition system.
When the ignition switch is on the black-blue then feeds 5 fuses including your ignition live feed fuse (black-white after the fuse)
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Re: Suzuki SJ410 - broke into, cut ignition wiring - no power at all to anything

Post by DavidB » Sat Apr 05, 2025 10:53 pm

Thanks for that, it's a massive help. It looks like I'm taking the whole loom out then (which is a 20 minute job :D )
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