fuse keeps blowing

[jeepbogger4x4]

so this just started today out of nowhere. my radio was working fine then when i went outside to turn it on it was ok until i put it in drive. the I.O.D. fuse under the hood was the one that blew. i replaced the fuse twice and it only does it when in drive. could this be a short somewhere?

[Mighty Quine]

need a bigger/more powerful fuse?

[Mighty Quine]

check your wiring, maybe something is pinched, burnt, worn, crossed or just somehow damaged. Or it could be the insulation around the end where they connect somewhere has eroded causing them to be bare and touch together then short?

[jeepbogger4x4]

i put a bigger fuse in and it still does it. i just put in anew crossmember so idk if it has someting to do with any wires under there. i'll check soon

[ninetysix-ex-jay]

Its some sort of monster over current draw. Start looking for any obvious shorts. Other then that throw an amp-clamp over the wire and see what its actually drawing

[jeepbogger4x4]

found it. the ground wire on my amp had a few stray wires touching the remote wire so it was shorting the whole thing back to the fuse box

[XJLI]

youre lucky the bigger fuse couldnt handle it, that would have been a nasty fire.

[jeepbogger4x4]

yea i know thank god it didn't. but it was only 5 amps bigger and the only one i had at the time.

[Mighty Quine]

hey, i was right for once!