electrical shorout

[TTipswprd]

Well after all the buckin my truck around in the snow last few days, i have lost my radio and cab lights. still have lights for my gauges and my dashboard. plannin on pulling the dash of here real soon but dont know what to look for. anyone have any thoughts?

[TTipswprd]

okay found it was just a fuse. today the lights went back out. Any idea why this fuse keeps blowing? anyone?

[diesel freak01]

be my guess you have a hot wire shorting straight to ground if its popping the fuse. loss of a fuse means that its allowing to much amperage to flow and thats why the fuse blows. look for a bare wire before the load aka whatever it is hooked to. if its your gauges follow that wire out of the fuse panel and into the harness and look for a obvious place it can ground out would be where i would start. hope this helps

[TTipswprd]

thats what i would of thought but my gauge lights still work. so it cant be the gauges

[TTipswprd]

okay so what i have found was a plastic wire harness on the drivers side fender had become eroded. when i lifted up on the harnsess, the wire broke off. Do you think this is the problem or is this just another problem that i don't see right now?

[diesel freak01]

i would fix that and go from there its possible thats your problem right there