With the help of this forum I was able to ID and fix my Clighter problem.

I removed the middle dash panel and the passenger side panel. I removed the lighter and check the end wires Two wires are attached, green hot and black ground. The green wire had a box connector at the end. The black was attached to the metal housing with another box connector at the end.

The end of the lighter had an L shaped wire that had melted and turned into a ball with the rubber housing still attached. I removed the wire and opened the brass part that was holding the fusible link. I replaced the melted fusible link with a 18 gage wire. I cut about an inch of wire. I kept the plastic housing at the middle and crimpt the 18 gage wire in place.

Put everything back and the cigarette lighter was operational again after a few years of not working.

I decided to fix the lighter in order to use a Garmin GPS. If the fix did not work I would of had to buy a new lighter. Would of been easier ...

Thanks for the knowledge ...

Lanman

 

Great fix indeed.
I had to do that to my '90 truck I use to have.
Blew the link out with something hooked up to it long ago.

 

It seems to be a common problem when using a vac cleaner or compressor to add air to tires.

The wire that I used was 18 gage for the lighter. Should I of used 20 gage?

Lanman

 

I'd probably have used 14.