why does my fuse keep on blowing up for the tail lights, interior lights and my corner lights ?

 

check your positive wire it is grounding itself out or it could be your groung wire touching an open positive.
it is prob split open somewhere have you bees taking any interior pieces out and in lately?


Basically go over your wires and put the correct size amperage fuse in. Not that you havent been.

 

You have a short some where, fix the problem and the fuse will not keep blowing.

 

Check for water inside the tail lamps etc...
Especially if it has been raining or you just washed it..

 

would water cause it in the lamps to short out ?

 

If you use a blow-dryer in the shower,will you get electrocuted?

 

yes i would but anyway i just went out and check it out but no sign of water in there

 

Ok,but you should probably remove the sockets from the housing and make sure..
Or shine a flashlight in there and shake the car...
It can be hard to tell sometimes..I can hit mine with the sprayer
at the car wash and watch them fill up...


Anyway,check this link: http://www.inliners.org/tech/tech6.html
It explains how to hook a test light in and from there you start unplugging
each component until the light goes out..when it does you have found your short..
Check like the taillight bulbs for broken filaments that shorted..

The easiest way to find it would be a short detector which is an RF transmitter and receiver..

 

what is the rf transmitter and receiver?

 

It is a Short detector which is a tool..
See that bunch of fried wire next to it?



It came from here:

Someone put a fuse that was too big in it and it fried all kinds of crap..
I fixed it all though...One wire at a time..

 

oka it had the same plm last week so i change the whole wire hardness from the engine bay to behinde the firewall and it was wroking good until today it blew the fuse. i havent checked the rear or the dash wires yet and could it be 1 of them ?

 

do this... Unplug the rear defogger switch and put a new fuse in and try to turn the lights on... If it works you owe me a million dollars...

 

same thing happened to me it was the turn signal up front d/s it was twisted around like six times and i guess the heat from the wires dried them out and they started shorting out just one more thing to try

 

i found the plm and it was hot wire touching the ground and it ended up at the rear right side tial lamp and i fixed it then it worksa after that

 

glad to hear that you found the plm

 

yea me 2

 

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See that bunch of fried wire next to it?



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DUDE!!! where did u get that i soooooo want one!!!

 

Man, it's okay, don't blow youre load. you really don't need that! I work for GM and GMC and we never use anything like that. Just a Fluke 88 and test lamp...fluke 88 rocks!

 

i got a 77 or 87 and a crap on, your right i don't need that one, but it's badass, since it creates it's own signal, i just bought a mac one, for 10$ not all electronic and hi tech but it will work, maybe i'll be able to use it to find out why my old 4 channel amp kept shorting out.

 

I borrowed it from a friend..It is a MAC tools FF300 fault finder
He said he had never used it but it worked well..

To tell the truth it just found a starting point on the nightmare pictured
above..From there I unwrapped the harness from the ignition switch
all the way to the transmission and started replacing burnt wires..

I did hook it up after the ordeal was over and it gave me a green light
though..

 

on mine, i looked on the fuse box and saw that the wire that goes to the front driver side corner light/blinker was fried. i had to take it all out and put new wire in.