i'm sure i did something wrong. number 4 fuse keeps blowing and not sure if i have it wired right. can someone tell me thanks russ
Hard to tell with photos, need a schematic to see which wires is the source and which wire is going to the device
i did that so long ago, i dont remember the specifics of each circuit. looking at your pics, the missing fuse has its own wire supplying power to it and then feeding the 2 red with light green wires. im looking over the wiring diagrams and it looks like the 2 wires just loop around and meed at a splice going to the dash plug. that doesnt make much sense to me so im going to look into it harder. basically for the fuse to blow the red with green wires need to be seeing ground. i would suggest unplugging the interment cluster and seeing if the fuse blows. its possible that a bulb in the cluster has shorted out and is causing the fuse to pop.
If you followed "factory protocol", #4 fuse gets 12v key-on power from the firewall bulkhead on one side while the other side has two red/grn wires. One of those goes to the ign switch and the other goes to the dash harness.
i'm not a wire guy lol but i just went off the pics i saw and what i could tell from looking at the original fuse block, i will try the cluster and see if that's it. bryant if there's any way you can take pics of both sides of yours that would help me understand it better. thanks russ
my car was rear ended and wrecked 2 years ago. its all sitting in boxes on a shelf in my shop. ill see if i can pull it out on monday and take some pics of it and maybe come up with a basic wiring diagram for it. what i did was look at your pics and saw the missing fuse and looked at the wire colors. red with light green tracers. then i went to here http://www.maverickcomet.com/Wiring/Maverick.asp and traced those wires though the diagrams. i dont know what year yours is but i looked through a few different years and they all ended up at the instrument cluster. i suspect russ is correct with his tracing of the circuit. im missing where it goes to the ignition switch but i dont doubt that it does. one thing you could try is disconnecting the combined two red with green wires going to that spot on the fuse block and hook one at a time up and see wich one blows the fues. then you need to figure out where the wire goes. i suspect once you pull the dash and check the bulbs you will find the shorted bulb. i tried looking at the cluster circuit and the plug in the wiring diagram but i couldnt figure out what circuit those wires went to.
on looking at this http://1bad6t.com/Maverick/repair/chassis_electrical_04.html it looks like depending on what year your car is, its the instrument cluster or if yours is a 72-75 it could be the seat belt warning system.
pulled the cluster out and put in a new fuse as soon as i turn the key on it blows, so if its the seat belt buzzer and light how do if fix that? everything else works except headlights,running lights but that could be the headlight switch?
A shorted (to ground) line somewhere in that loop. You'll need to trace all lines in that circuit until you find it. Most likely though, it's a result of connecting them to the wrong spots...
i got the headlights and running lights working it was the switch from not being used. i checked the seat belt and door buzzer both were disconnected.
the two wires that go to that fuse can be split. then i would take an ohm meter to each one and ground and see which one is shorted. then follow it through the harness and you will find where its shorting to ground. you can do creative things like checking the ends of the wire at the dash plug, the seat belt switch plug and door buzzer plug. if checking for the short at those plugs doesnt get you in the right direction then you need to follow the actual wire through the harness.
