Another trick is to connect an ohm meter between ground and each point
where there's power, one by one. Be sure to disconnect your battery
first! There should be infinite resistance (not connected at all) between
a power source and ground because if there's anything close to zero resistance,
then there's a dead short which will blow a fuse. The benefit of this
method is that you can connect the ohm meter to the power wire before a gauge
and after the gauge and determine if the short is in the gauge or the wire
going
to it.
Denise
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Janacek
To: Gordon Rice ;MG-BBS
Sent: 7/1/01 8:33:31 AM
Subject: Re: Fuse keeps blowing
It might cost you a couple more fuses, but you could start by
disconnecting
each of the three systems, one at a time, and see if that solves the
problem. If so then look for shorts in the culprit system. If not then
a
look at the wiring schematic is in order. I have Bentleys available if
you
need it up on Yahoo http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bubblechaser343
.
Mike
'79B
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Rice" gordonrice@hotmail.com
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 3:26 AM
Subject: Fuse keeps blowing
Recently the fuel guage, tachometer, and temperature guage on my
79
MGB went out. I tracked this down to a blown fuse (2nd from
bottom).
Unfortunately it keeps blowing fuses - I'm now on my 3rd
replacement
fuse after trying 20A, 25A, and 30A fuses. Any suggestions on what
the
likely culprit might be?
--- Denise Thorpe
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