Had to pull the battery and air cleaner boxes out and remove air cleaner tube to make enough room to get behind fender to install new inner fender liner. Put it back together and Jeep won’t start. Several fuses somehow blew in the process; radio and a cigarette lighter plug fuse. Replaced those. When turning the key, there are noises and clicks coming from the throttle body and tipm, which last a few seconds, then nothing happens. Any ideas?

It was the 25a ignition circuit braker/relay. CB1 on the panel.

Yep. Not the CB1. I just so happened to do that one when I did the ignition fuse. Replacing M27 is what solved it, actually. Good call.

I must’ve been careless when removing the battery, installing it, or whatever. I don’t recall doing anything careless but I must have.

They are Mailer liners that require drilling a hole to install a bolt, and getting the nut on the back side was too hard to do without creating space. In summary, I’m a lousy tech who can’t install a fender liner without blowing fuses lol!!!

The electrical leaves much to be desired. I added a heavy gauge ground from the battery to the alternator years ago. I have heard that the stock terminal connectors make for a lousy connection, given how skinny they are, resulting in random electrical issues. The ones on my Toyota trucks are huge, thick and heavy. I’ll upgrade mine. I actually replaced the M27 twice in this situation. It’s fine now but I guess simply r and r’ing the battey and fiddling with the connections here and there was enough to cause a problem.

Years ago it wouldn’t start and it was from the ground being poor, which prompted a search here and which lead me to add that heavy gauge ground from the negative terminal to the alternator.