"INST LPS" fuse keeps blowing.
It seems to happen when I increase the brightness of the gauges. I'm rather bothered and am wondering if anything else is tied into this fuse that could contribute.
Thanks in advance!

 

I know its a little unorthodox and a poor solution, but should I try a 10 amp in place of the 5?

 

If there are no known 'extra' accessories on that circuit, I'd be very hesitant to do so. If it's a true short, it will only cause things to burn more.

I know how much of a pain tracing down these problems can be. My brake lights weren't working and I just decided to pull the whole dash apart, along with all the plastic covering the wiring channel back to the tail of the car - taillights off, everything.

I inspected all the wire, and the like. Through process of elimination I managed to determine it was the turn signal switch.

I started with a simple replacement of the brake light switch. No good.

Then - well, I knew the turn signals and hazards were working, so I got a schematic and found that the turn, hazard, and brake lights all use the same circuit to the brake lights. Meaning - the wiring was good from the dash back. I still wanted to check out the harness just to be sure.

I know if it's a daily driver it makes it more difficult to really tear into it, but if you can manage a full day - start early - just disassemble the whole dash.

Then inspect the wires closely for starters. Pull the gauges out and look for burn marks, etc. It's a lot easier to see all that stuff with the plastic trim out of the way.

Considering you can drive it fine without all that trim, even if you need to drive it, just put the gauges back reconnect anything you unplugged and go..

Just my experience - since I spent $100.00 on a computer for a car once and found it was just a burnt fusable link.

In the end - I think half of the goal with the electrical system is to not do any more damage... hehe

 

I definitely feel ya on that. Being my only car, its a PITA to take it apart, but I manage. After searching and reading what had to be 75+ posts, I ran into this one and am going to try out the solution.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/elec...sh-lights.html