Ok, so today on my way to lunch my EF starts going click click click all by its own. Sounds like the signal relay. Well, eventually I hear a zap and there goes the fuse. I pull the fuse, replace, zap, it goes again. So I put a 20amp fuse instead of a 10, and the zap noise its actually a ringing, kinda like the old *** toyotas when you opened the door with the key in the ignition. Well, I pull the fuse and yank the relay (had it exposed).

Mitsuba
FR-3309

I opened it up and I don't see anything physically wrong, no missing solder, no broken pin. What the hell!!! Input please.

 

you have a short somewhere

 

You don't say! I guess I gotta follow all the ******* interior wiring. Maybe the relay just went bad? It was clicking by itself at first, then the buzz, it's not like the lights went on or anything. It also knocked out my cluster.

 

Where's the ignition relay located in this whooore.

 

Damnit, why is it that when other people post the threads get WAY to much info, and when I post I get none? I figured out my problem, relay went bad (it's fun known 2 electric engineers and being a mechanical engineer in training). I was flipping thru the helms thing and I had found some diagrams, they didn't help much as to locations and what not, but I did get a path to follow and it lead to a loose ignition relay and a bad signal relay. Tested them and the signal relay failed, pick and pull I go to now.

 

Bump cuz I have no idea.

 

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Figured it out. Two things happened. My relay for my signal went ******* WILD! I've never heard a signal litterally SCREAM at me like it was an alarm haha. It shorted, drew alot of amps and blew the fuse. The fuse killed the gauge (they run the same fuse, signal and gauges). I took out the sensor, put a 20 amp fuse in, and replaced the sensor. It screamed without the fuse blowing. The gauges didn't work. I let everything cool down. I put a 10 amp fuse back in, and the relay finally died. When it died, the gauges came back to life. All I gotta do is replace the sensor now. Problem solved.