HELP!! 95 Blazer with fusible link problem?

[pimpglass]

Long story short, I came to a stop light. My truck started to stall, then died. I tried to restart it, but something caused my battery to drain dead almost instantly. Even after I turned the key to the off position, I continued to hear a clicking sound from the area of the starter for about 10 seconds more until my battery was totally dead.

The battery smells like it got burned up in the ordeal. Anyhow, some guy at Kragens told me to look for a burned fusible link that supposedly runs from the top of the engine above the starter down the firewall into a metal tube. He claimed that this metal tube that the wire/s were running through causes the wire to be rubbed bare until it causes a short. Supposedly a common problem with GM vehicles. However, I can't find ANY wires running into a metal tube.

I was also thinking that because of the fact that the battery drained SO fast even with the key off, that it would probably be the main power wire to the starter from the battery grounding out somewhere.

Somebody who can direct me in the right direction or give me any other explanations as to why this happened or anything that might help.

I had one other idea. Probably not a very good one I should add. Would I be able to possibly hook up my jumper box to maybe see where all the clicking is coming from or is this just gonna smoke my jumper box too?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Bret

BTW-The vehicle in question is 95 S10 Blazer 4x4 with a 4.3 w engine.

[jeffharley]

This happened to me. It was the starter that had gone bad, and burned the fuseable link located on the fenderwell drivers side. I replaced the starter and the fuseable link and all was fixed