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Old 03-13-2014, 03:49 PM
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It won't blow the fuse again. This drives me crazy because it's basically impossible to figure out the culprit. Yet I don't want to drive it because I could end up miles away from home with no oil pressure gauge, low oil sensor or brake lights, which are kind of essentials.
I checked from amp draw at the fuse box and get about 1 amp without brakes, and 6.5 amps with the brake pedal depressed. Is that second one high? I guess it wouldn't take much of a deviation to blow the fuse from there, but I have no idea what the deviation was or how to recreate it.
Guess I will pull the cluster and see if there are any warning lights wires that look suspect.
Should I just drive it a bit (without going too far) and see if it will blow again? Because aside from visually obvious problems, I don't know what to look for when no fault is present anymore.
Another thing that crossed my mind was the lamp monitoring unit ... since I had issues with other lights and fuses blowing, as mentioned in above post. Again kind of hard to test when it isn't doing anything offensive now.
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