blowing fuses
#1 _oikurtman_
Posted 15 February 2007 - 01:48 PM
it seems to go fine for a while, but when it rains heavily, i need to buy a pack of fuses to get me through the next few days.
it's weird too coz sometimes a fuse will last for 2 days after a rain, then blow, then when i replace it, the next one is fine for 5 minutes, then the next lasts 2 seconds, then the next is fine for a week. i'm stumped...
anyone else ever have this problem or got any ideas?
cheers.
#2
Posted 15 February 2007 - 02:10 PM
#3 _oikurtman_
Posted 15 February 2007 - 06:29 PM
#4 _SLR5000_
Posted 15 February 2007 - 09:46 PM
#5
Posted 15 February 2007 - 11:31 PM
#6 _finer70_
Posted 16 February 2007 - 08:11 AM
With wiring go back to basics. When was it OK. What was done prior to the problem.
That may not be any work on the wires, but other work that may have affected the wiring. Like cutting holes, pushing wires aside to fiddle etc.
To blow a fuse it is either a short or overload.
Also try to identify just what is working when it blows and trace each circut.
Your tailights are not filling up with water are they?
#7 _oikurtman_
Posted 16 February 2007 - 12:18 PM
i'll have another look at the wiring, but yeah i think it might just have to go to an auto sparky more money!
cheers.
#8
Posted 16 February 2007 - 06:39 PM
#9 _coupe202_
Posted 17 February 2007 - 03:13 PM
With all the extra gauges you have added the amp size of the fuse may be to small.
#10 _AquaSLR5000_
Posted 19 February 2007 - 09:50 PM
#11
Posted 20 February 2007 - 09:11 AM
#12 _raceme_
Posted 22 February 2007 - 03:48 PM
or its an overload as suggested, i would still think a short is more probable.
#13 _oikurtman_
Posted 24 February 2007 - 05:02 PM
but i can't see any water on any wires under the dash or in the engine bay, (except a tiny bit on the horn wires). Mind you, disconnecting the horns when they are wet does not make a difference.
any more ideas?
by the way, everytime it rains, water pools on the passenger floor. but i don't think theres anything on this circuit in that area, is there?
cheers.
#14
Posted 25 February 2007 - 12:53 AM
Maybe worth a look.
#15 _Christian_O_
Posted 25 February 2007 - 07:40 AM
I found that engine harness, as it passes behind the cylinder head was shorting against the head. It looked like the insulating plastic on some of the wires had melted and they were shortening. When I pulled the whole harness out, I found similar problems in the starter motor wires. Ended up replacing the whole wiring harness with new wire and terminals. I'd have to agree, with someone elese on this thread, the wires were so brittle that they just snapped in your fingers. I also found that there was corrosion along the wires (green.brown looking stuff) along the wires.
Replaced the wires, problem solved.
#16
Posted 25 February 2007 - 12:48 PM
Have you taken out ALL of your external light bulbs and inspected them and their holders for corrosion from water?
Have you removed your added gauge lights to see if things change?
#17 _oikurtman_
Posted 04 March 2007 - 07:18 PM
the rear light wires were partially submersed in water, underneath the boot mat.
drained it and dried the whole boot up.
hoping for the best at the next rain!
cheers.
#18 _oikurtman_
Posted 20 March 2007 - 09:30 PM
well it has rained a few times and things were going well until tonight, it blew 2 fuses.
i checked where the water was before, in the boot, but it all looks pretty good in there.
i did notice something though. Just before each fuse blew, the red battery light on the dash would glow, not light up, just glow. It would stay like this for about a minute or so after the fuse blew as well.
any ideas?
cheers.
#19
Posted 20 March 2007 - 10:16 PM
Follow the loom backwards from the small wire at the alternator back to the dash.
Be just about going nuts by now, huh?
Edited by rodomo, 20 March 2007 - 10:18 PM.
#20 _devilsadvocate_
Posted 22 March 2007 - 04:16 PM
Water causing a short sounds like your most likely culprit, though my experience is even though water can conduct electricity it doesnt do it very well.......not usually well enough to cause fuse blowing currents.
The glowing of the light on the alternator suggests it is struggling to cope with the overload when it is happening, could something be shorting out on the back of the fuse panel especially since these three circuits are successive fuses.
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