I had a faulty pin connector on the back of my instrument cluster. Which caused this fuse to continually blow and I guess it also must have started a tiny electrical fire in the fuse box. Because now it's all melted and was covered in the white electrical fire type corrosion. see picture (I had already wire brushed a lot of the corrosion off when I took the pic, the fuse mount was completely covered in the white stuff at first

Now it is completely not working. I wire brushed all the corrosion and put a new fuse in. And it doesn't blow but it also does not allow everything associated with that fuse to work.


Do I need to unmounted the fuse box, push it into the dash and replace the "fuse mount"? Or would you guys suspect that I need to cut, strip and re-crimp the wire and connector that is associated with that fuse on the back of the fuse box?


Is this what needs to be done?


Does anyone know an easier way to do this? I really would not enjoy working on electrical all crammed up on the floor of my driver's seat to reach up behind the dash and squeeze my hands in there to replace the broken parts. is there a trick to getting to the back of the fuse box from the top end (engine compartment)?


I fixed the grounded out connector in the cluster that was causing this. So the root of the problem has been fixed btw

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