brought my truck to get inspected, shop fails b/c no rear running lights.
I get home, pop out the (blown) fuse, pop a new one in, same size, everything works great. OK, just an every day, normal xj thing. Shop said they tried replacing fuses, I figure they were just blowing me off..
Anyway, I decide to check everything out anyway, since I wanted to run a license plate camera, so I pulled everything from rear to dash on the driver's side --- rear hatch trim, all the drivers front/rear trim. I traced all the wires... no rot, no grounding that I can tell. All the lights look good.
put everything back together, start the truck up and ... POP. fuse blown. Dash board lights out, rear running lights out. Front head lights work, brakes work, rev lights work, and signals all work.
this is after almost a full day of work, with everything ripped out.... owners manual says 15amp fuse (the "hzd stop" fuse is the one blowing). I drop in a 20amp fuse. works fine with truck off, start it, pop.
Drop in a 30amp fuse, now it works fine, ran it for 30 minutes with no pop.
Any idea whats going on? A surge or something somewhere?
I'll say that I've been running with this setup for over a year, haven't really messed around with the electrical in a while (I did flip the truck last year, but none of the panels I had to repalce were near anything electrical)
any help appreciated.
I get home, pop out the (blown) fuse, pop a new one in, same size, everything works great. OK, just an every day, normal xj thing. Shop said they tried replacing fuses, I figure they were just blowing me off..
Anyway, I decide to check everything out anyway, since I wanted to run a license plate camera, so I pulled everything from rear to dash on the driver's side --- rear hatch trim, all the drivers front/rear trim. I traced all the wires... no rot, no grounding that I can tell. All the lights look good.
put everything back together, start the truck up and ... POP. fuse blown. Dash board lights out, rear running lights out. Front head lights work, brakes work, rev lights work, and signals all work.
this is after almost a full day of work, with everything ripped out.... owners manual says 15amp fuse (the "hzd stop" fuse is the one blowing). I drop in a 20amp fuse. works fine with truck off, start it, pop.
Drop in a 30amp fuse, now it works fine, ran it for 30 minutes with no pop.
Any idea whats going on? A surge or something somewhere?
I'll say that I've been running with this setup for over a year, haven't really messed around with the electrical in a while (I did flip the truck last year, but none of the panels I had to repalce were near anything electrical)
any help appreciated.