Fuse Box Help

A bulb could be shorted. You need to go back to your other thread and download the FSM posted there.

One thing that will help save fuses is to "rig" a flasher and big heavy bulb and put them in place of the fuse. KD tools I think actually used to make a test rig like this.

Get yourself a tail/ stop socket, and put a heavy duty bulb in. Twist the two wires together out of the socket. Solder or hose clamp a wire connection onto the ground shell of the socket. So you can hook it up like so:

(One clip of the fuse holder) ---hooks to--- (One wire from the flasher) ---(Other wire from flasher) ---hooks to--- (two twisted wires from socket) ---- (ground shell of socket) ---hooks to--- (second clip from fuse holder)

Use long enough wire to hook this up so you can get the lamp up into the window area, so if you are back in the trunk or back seat, you can see it easily

Now you have a "blow proof" fuse that will just sit there and flash the lamp if it shorts


You need to determine what the major disconnect points are for parts of the harness. for example, there is traditionally a separation point in the left kick panel where the rear harness heads into the sillplate and back towards the trunk.

So you could disconnect that connector and separate that part of the harness.

Another thing to try is disconnect the connector going up to the column switch, to see if the signal switch has a short to ground.

Another way you can do the above is to just use a big bulb, no flasher. The bulb will light when the short is in place. Now go around and shut off/ remove all loads, remove all tail lamp bulbs, the dome light, etc, and if there is no short, the bulb should be OUT. Now you can do "wiggle tests" etc to find the short.

(Wiggle the switch as well as the harness)