Hello everyone,
My 89 RS 5.0 TBI 5speed shut down completely while driving down the road. The headlights/ taillights and interior lights all work. Nothing connected to the ignition switch turns on, no buzzer, indicator lights, no fuel pump, no clicking relays, no rear hatch latch, nothing at the key at all.
Been searching threads for hours now and I'm not having any luck finding the answers I need. I've checked the fuses, fusable links, wire and firewall connections, Relays and computer. Everything seems to check out good. I do suspect the large red coil wire of grounding out on the air cleaner, but I am not positive. No pun intended.

If anyone has had a similar problem please let me know what you have figured out.

Thank you,
Brandon

 

Replaced Ignition switch, not lock cylinder, still nothing at the key. Any thoughts?

 

are you gettting power to the igintion switch? do you have a vats pod on your key?

 

Fixed it. One of the fusable links at the starter was fried. Why the engineers thought going all the way down to the starter and then back up to the ignition switch was a good idea I'll never know. Yes I have the VATS (for now). Thank you.