Elias lopez
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- December 8, 2016
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- City, State
- Beaverton
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 93 Ford Explorer
long story and I’m lost at this point. So about a month ago, my right rear turn signal wasn’t functioning. I figure it’s just the bulb and replace it. Still does the same thing, solid glow instead of blinking. It didn’t blink in the hazards as well. After a couple it days it was functioning perfectly. Than by the next week none were working, fuse was blown. I would go and replace the fuse, it would last a little and than blow. Checked wiring, bulbs(not sure where grounds are located) everything looked good. Turn signal flasher has been replaced. For some odd reason the fuses kept lasting longer and longer to a point where it never blew. It last about a month and I thought it was all good. That was background info in case it could help. Now to just yesterday, my brother was driving behind me and told me my brake lights weren’t working. I check the fuse, blown. Replace the fuse, blows again. Check the wiring on the tail lights and everything as well, looked fine. Again don’t know where the grounds are. Put a new fuse in and hazards and brakes worked, all but the right tailight again. Disconnected the plug and noticed it had some dirt in there and cleaned it. Like magic that hazard and brake started working. As of right now, that problem is fixed. Now the turn signal, which barley went out today, I was driving and noticed they weren’t working. Took a frustrated drive and came back to investigate again. An interesting issue is, my reverse aren’t working anymore as well. Which I know they have the same fuse but prior when my turn signals weren’t working my reverse functioned fine(even while the fuse was blown). I do have aftermarket reverse lights spliced into the stock wiring. I took the old bulbs out and I’m just using the wiring on the trailer reverse lights. Disconnected those too see if the wiring was bad. Fuse still blows instantly when the key is turned to accessories or when it’s running. Took apart the dash to see if it was the turn signal switch that’s the issue. Unplugged it and tried again, same issue. Did notice a few loose wires in the switch but they were still in place. Seemed to be some sort of grease in the plugs as well, not sure what it was. Wasn’t a lot of anything, just a light amount. Anyways, I Looked at a wiring diagram and wanted to follow the wires to see if there was a short in the wire to the fuse panel. Noticed that fuse #9 didn’t even have a wire plugged into it, just had an empty prong. It’s a brown and orange wire for the blower motor. Disconnected the blower motor relay and the fuse under the hood to see if that was the issue, repeated the process of putting a fuse in and putting it into accessories. Same thing, fuse blows. Another note, when I put a light tester into the fuse, it does light up when in accessories. So I don’t know if this just means it’s working because in accessories or it means there’s a short in the wire. I’m not sure, I’ve been researching and watching YouTube all day yesterday and today. I’ve run out of ideas. If anybody could help it would be great. I’m running out of options and I don’t really feel like paying a bunch for it to be looked at. Sorry it’s a lot of writing, if there’s anything that needs to be clarified or added, let me know. Thanks again. I couldn’t figure out how to move this to a category so if somebody could do that, that would help a lot.