Electrical Issue

k so i'm driving to work at 5 am, and poof my who dash goes black, i'm like this is just f'ing great, just what i wanted to do tonight, hunt down an electrical problem. anyway i'v pretty well narrowed it down to fuse 13, but i've put 2 new ones in and as soon as i click the switch for the parking lights, it blows it, i hooked up my multi meter to it and it was drawing about 20 amps, then a couple mins ago i hooked it up again and it was around 12 amps. according to the manual it's only supposed to be a 5 amp fuse in there, the guy before me stuck in a 20 amp fuse, and it takes a bit with a 20 amp fuse, but it will blow this one, when i put a proper 5 amp fuse it blows it right away, also when i hook up the multi meter the wires on the meter get hot!!!! that ain't good, i know this, what i am wondering is does any one have a better diagram on where the wires go, because my haynes book is pretty hard to read,or if anyone has had this problem let me know how it was sloved. i am about to go rip my dash apart, i'll be checking this to see if any one can help me.

BTW, the head lights still turn on and off

thanks in advance, sorry for the long post

thanks man.......i'm still fighting with this, i replaced the dimmer beacuse it was shot anyway. still have no illumination, gonna try some more stuff then call it a night

god i f'ing hate electrical.....lol, i was fighting with it for like 8 hours tonight, and after wiggling the same set of wires like thousands of times, now it works all of a sudden.. i mean WTF, i geuss i gotta find the bare wire, hopefully its not too hard, thats the end of my tired rant.

BTW thank you again jrichker , those helped me out, i didn't need to squint at my haynes manual

ISO wires?....i seen that in the book......what are they? car won't start any more though, i can boost it and it will run but when you shut it off,,,, theres nothing, anyone got any ideas?

man this thing is just popin up new problems, what happens is you can boost it then if you shut it off and try and restart it ,it will start but if you wait like 1 min then it wont start, you can just hear the relay clicking. maybe the battery is toast, or maybe the relay. any one got any more idea's it could be? also the yellow wire that hook up to the realy that branchs off to 4 fuseable links, when i take that off and hook up the multimeter to it and the other half to the ground cable without the cable hooked up to the battery, it shows 0 resistance, i think that means theres a bare wire touching ground? am i right?.......man i hate auto electrical.....its looking like i'm taking the bicycle to work