zerotofifty
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 Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 8:36 am Post subject: Re: Blowing Fuse - 58 Beetle |
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The place I be looking is within the tail lamp housing, see if a wire has come loose that is shorting to ground. if all looks good, then disconnect the wire from the lamp socket whilest keeping the wire ends away from the grounded body and turn on the brake light to see if the fuse blows with no lamp socket attached. If it does not blow, then that means the problem was likely in the lamp socket assembly. if she does blow, then the problem is elsewhere. also look under the fender, backside of the tail lamp and look for frailed wires to the lamp housing, deteriorated wire grommets that might cause a short to ground
Oh, one more thing, does the fuse blow when the turn signal for that side is working? co firm that side rear turn signal is operating, if that causes fuse to NOT blow, then the short maybe in the turn signal switch. Give the turn signal this test first as it is easy and quick to do. If the turn signal operation does blow that fuse, then check the lamp housing as above.
Other places of the short, maybe at the connectors in the enginebay, or at the fuse panel, from flayed wires, wires that have come off their connectors So take a look at the fuse block too.
if you have the old ceramic fuses, they can be restored by replacing the metal fuse part from a contemporary plastic fuse, thus you can retain the original ceramic fuse body. many new fuses have plastic bodies. The old ceramic original types just plain are cool, so save those blown ceramic fuse bodies and rebuild them, it is very easy to do.
Please report back on your investigation results.
Best of luck!,, |
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