any reason why my meter fuse would keep blowing? i have not changed anything electrical or mechanical with the car. Just started happeneing last week, everytime i put a new fuse in, within 5 minutes it will blow


also about a month before all this happened, my e-fans stopped working, could not figure out why, so i have them hard wired with a switch to the battery

 

ok i have been having problems with my meter fuse. I have read that the ground for that is back by the fuel pump cover. If it was not screwed down properly, would that short out my ground?

(reason i ask is I had some things in the trunk, i moved them off the fuel pump cover, figuring they were bumping on it when i hit bumps and turns, after i removed the things off of it, it seemed to stop tripping the fuse)

any relation?

 

anyone?

 

ok, so i took the car to a shop to look at it. they said i had a short somewhere in my rear defroster and disconnected it (thats fine i live in s florida) now its still popping. makes my car run like ****, no turn signals, no reverse lights, no gauges......anyone know how to test for a short or where to start. i finally have my car running 95% and this **** is happening. please someone help me figure out where to start........

 

oh and from my endless searching, it appears it is a dead short i have

 

anyone?

 

Was your car in a wreck? Are you running larger tires and rims (possibly rubbed) a harness under the front plastic. The things you say aren't working are the places you need to systematically eliminate as the problem. It obviously wasn't the rear defroster.

 

instead of the 16"s im running 17's but with a low profile, so i dont think its that. i started pulling the fuses that run some of the same things that the meter fuse does, and it still doesnt work. it seems to be getting worse and worse now. everytime something gets fixed on this car, something else goes wrong. i dont have the time or the knowledge to do this stuff. (id take a mechanical problem over an elec problem anyday) im taking it back to the shop tomorrow. hopefully they can fix it this time.

if anyone has any ideas or soulution please chime in.

and no my car was not in a wreck (that im aware of) ive owned the car for a little over a year and have not changed it at all (except for adding guages and a stand alone and a mid pipe.) but all this was done months before i started having these problems. so i dont think that any of that did it.

only thing i can think of is about a week before this all started when i went WOT i smelled burning rubber (wires perhaps)

 

Electrical problems aren't that hard to fix when they stay broke like yours. Since your car hasn't been wrecked and your sure you didn't move something from it's original location while working on anything, and the tires haven't rubbed through the fender liner and damaged any wires then you will have to look at the FSM electrical(stickied above) to help locate your problem. An electrical problem is very expensive for a shop to do as it can be time consuming even for someone with fairly good troubleshooting skills. In most cases they will ask if you've done any recent installations and start there if it's a possibility. Since your not blowing any fuses past the one you describe then the short is between the fuse thats blowing and the ones it feeds your going to have to use the electrical diagram to figure out where to look.

 

I Need More Specific Info. I Might Be Able To Help.

 

as some of you may have read in my previous posts, ive been having problems with my meter fuse continuasly blowing. i took it to a shop, and they want like 900 to do the work to "try" to fix it with no promises. I need this to work.

I know someone has had this problem before, can anyone shed some light for me.

 

I haven't read your previous posts but it sounds like you have a short to ground somewhere. It's trial and error time, fire up your volt meter and start testing for continuity where it shouldn't be.. I wouldn't use that shop either. $900 for what? They have no idea how long it will take to find the problem or what it is.. electrical issues can be time consuming though I wish you luck.

 

thats the problem. i dont have a volt meter, and when it comes to that, i honestly have no idea what im doing. (im more of a wrench turner) also the fuse pops so fast i dont think i have the chance to see where it is coming from. thats why im looking for help on here.

 

Backup.
What did you have done to the car recently (prior to this electrical issue)?

 

The basic method is to use the electrical diagram to locate everything on that fuse's circuit.
First confirm that the fuse output does have a short (close to zero resistance) to ground. Then start disconnecting connectors, etc., until you find one that eliminates the short, and investigate why.

There are variations on this, but that's the basic idea. It's not fun, and it can be very frustrating, but it's not rocket science.

 

thats the thing. i have not done anything to the car. mechanical or electrical. only thing that i changed was the ecu. but that was like 2-3 months before i started to get these problems.

i put in the aem ems

 

yeah but the meter fuse is not just one thing...it controls the abs system, reverse lights, brake lights, turn signals, ecu, cruise control, and entire dash board.

i tried looking under the dash and there is like a million wires. i have no idea of where to start. i tried pulling every single fuse and relay that are not required to make the car start and run properly. and it still shorts out.

 

read the wiring section of the FSM

owning an FD is a constant learning experience...if you don't want to learn, you will be paying someone lots of money

 

Get the old rad shack multimeter and go for it man! You'll be surprised how much you'll learn just gettin in there.

 

MERGED all FOUR threads.....

 

i was thinking. before my meter fuse started blowing, my fans would shut off. (60A fuse would blow) i could not figure out why that was happeneing and i hooked the fans up so they run all the time as long as the car is on. (works out great gives me nice low temps) but i never fixed the problem with my fans....

it seems that the meter fuse blows more frequently when the car is hot....operating temps.....is there something that send a signal to the fan relays (which were obviously not working properly) that is shorting and causing the meter fuse to blow? i know they are two different systems but could one problem be related to the other?

 

^^^^^^^^^^.....................

 

yes, the meter fuse supplies power to the relays power the radiator fans.

logic says to fix your fans the correct way first.

 

ok well if i am happy with the way I have my fans setup to run, can i just disconnect the relays?

 

I don't know how you have your fans wired right now...but can't hurt to try.