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Is it safe to get rid of inline fuseable links, he has an 85? So I'm assuming you mean an AE85, so that's an older Toyota Corolla. Fuseable links were an older form of circuit protection and they are actually exactly the same as a fuse.

00:00 - Ray Alexander has asked, is it safe to get rid of inline fuseable links, he has an 85? So I'm assuming you mean an AE85, so that's an older Toyota Corolla.
00:09 Fuseable links were an older form of circuit protection and they are actually exactly the same as a fuse.
00:16 They're called a fuseable link, typically because they handle higher currents and they have a what's called a slow blow function.
00:24 They can actually handle an over current situation for an appreciable amount of time before they fail.
00:30 To answer your question though, no, it's not safe, don't go removing fuses in a system.
00:35 They are there for a reason.
00:37 And that reason is actually to protect your wiring harness.
00:41 It's a common misconception that fuses and fuseable links are in place to protect your component devices, that's not the case at all.
00:49 Usually a fuse blows because a component has already failed, so you don't need to protect it.
00:55 What you do need to protect are the lengths of wire supplying power to that component that's failed and has gone to a dead short.
01:02 So that's what our fuse does.
01:04 So no, don't go removing fuseable links unless you are replacing them with something that is equivalent, you could upgrade to a more common fuseable link setup in that scenario if you wanted to.
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