Electrical Electrical short

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Thebluefox1

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#1

• Dec 27, 2022

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Hello, I found a short on my car (90 5.0 hatchback) and because it had to do with the dome light switch( i think) I went for a long time and burnt the cables from the connection to the dome light so I was going to run new wires but is there only two cables or three or is it The same diagram for all fuse 8

 

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JD1964

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• Dec 28, 2022

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I think you have a serious wiring problem to figure out because that part of the circuit should have been protected by a fused circuit. If proper, a fuse would blow long before all that wiring overheated like that. That is a fire hazard!

 

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• Dec 28, 2022

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Yeah I found a 40 amp fuse instead of the 30 amp it’s supposed to have but I think I figured it out

 

JD1964

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• Dec 29, 2022

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What circuit related to the dome light would be 30amp? That sounds way too high.

Even then, any true 30amp circuit would probably survive on a 40amp fuse. Even a 40 should blow and protect wires from melting.

The burnt wires you show in the picture look like something that would happen on an unfused circuit.

 

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• Dec 29, 2022

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Sorry was confusing it with another its a 15 and it had a 40 but I think all the circuits are fused with correct fuses except that one