Ok ive got a weird problem.... On my 97 i keep blowing fuses to the trailer lights, it doesnt matter if the trailer is hooked up or not. Its been doing this for awhile, but i was unaware how often til our driver told me about a week ago. Anyway i take a look at it today, put a 25 amp fuse in (#4 fuse under hood) and we have lights (old fuse was blown very bad, big gap between posts). I pull fuse and put my fluke meter between fuse terminals and its drawing about 1 amp, now im thinkin how in the heck are we blowing a 25 amp fuse that bad! I set my meter to record peak amps and crawled under the truck and wiggled all the harnesses going all the way to the trailer plug....max amp draw 1.0. So i put my meter up start backing out of the shop and pop there it went. I put truck in park, pull fuse and its blown bad. Now im out of 25 amp so i throw a 20 in, start backing out POP . I am not going to hook my meter upto that unless i can rig up something i can use my amp clamp with. Anyway i put it in N put new fuse in and then drive around parking lot...lights still on, put in reverse and POP goes the fuse WTF?????
Oh i bought this truck with a salvage title, it was the victim of a small eng compartment fire on the passenger side. Ive had absolutely no problems in teh 10k-15k miles ive owned it other than this. Any ideas? Im an electrician by trade so im familiar with wiring, but i dunno where to start with this
luke
Oh i bought this truck with a salvage title, it was the victim of a small eng compartment fire on the passenger side. Ive had absolutely no problems in teh 10k-15k miles ive owned it other than this. Any ideas? Im an electrician by trade so im familiar with wiring, but i dunno where to start with this
luke
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. Right now i have a solid orange wire that has power all the time and a black w/ green tracer seems to be the backup lights. Oh and once i pulled the plug out of bumper the fuse doesnt blow anymore. The trailer plug is wired using a pigtail that plugs into two different plugs on the truck.
