Blink 183

Just joined, and any help anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated.
I have a 94 Toyo 4x4 with about 309 K miles on it. A few weeks ago the fuse for the directional signal blew, and I replaced it. A few days later, it blew again, and I since I was turning accross traffic I hit the hazzard blinkers, but they blew too. I've been replacing the fuses every couple of days, but now they blow immediately. I've read through the various postings on blown fuses and it I assume that I've got an exposed wire somewhere thats making contact with the ground. I'm confused, however, since the directional signal and the harrard are on different circuits- the fuse for the directional signal is in kick panel by the driver's left knee, and the hazzard fuze is under the hood by the battery. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks again. This is a great site.

DN1911

does you truck have a bed on it?

mine used to until i started to blow fuses also. i started looking into my wiring and found that Toyota had run the rear harness over the rear cross member and under the bed. no big deal until the bed brace rotted and the bed was bouncing on the cross member, effectively chewing my harness into pieces in the rear. unfortunately i couldn't really get to the wires with the bed installed. so off i came and stayed off. we chopped down the frame and are working on a All Pro flat bed kit.

MMA_Alex

yep, I would look under the bed. It would be somewhere inbetween the lights, and where the wires split away from each other to go to their respective fuse holders. It's probably just rubbed through part of the harness and is grounding out on something.

Blink 183

Thank you gentlemen. It does have a bed, and I'll look there first.

tc

Mine did that, it would blink once, then the fuse would blow. Blinker or hazards - just the same.

Replaced the flasher, and all was good. Note: the flasher is NOT where you'd think it would be! It's under the steering column, you have to take the driver's side lower part of the dash off.

Note: the factory flasher is the 3pin type, but a 2pin will work too.

montanatoy

Just the answer that I needed. Had the same problem yesterday and was facing an hour drive to the dealer to troubleshoot. Will trying getting a relay and replacing before trying anything else.

Blink 183

Thanks again to everyone. Turns out it was the flasher.