Fuse for gauges keep blowing
Wire under the hood keeps blowing the gauges fuse. when i move the wires on the driver side under the hood the car want crank turn over or say anything until i move the wires like shake them until it crank. i can tell when its ready to crank cause the gauges light use to come on when i turn the key as if im about to crank the car. but now its blowing the gauges fuse also n i cant read how much gas is in the car or if theres any other problems. Its a 1984 chevy caprice classic,
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If the fault is being corrected when you move wires around, then you either have a loose connection or a ground fault. Since you know which fuse is being blown, you need to trace that circuit to find the fault. Blowing fuse usually mean either a faulty load, or live wire to ground. But your problem seem to be a hot wire touching ground somewhere.
Initially you had a bad earth causing you the problem , now you have a live wire broken which is shorting out via the chasis and causing the fuses to go.
remove the fuse box and trace the wire that comes from the blown fuse, and follow it down the loom .do a conyinuity test on it and it will tell u if there is a break in it ,,which there is !!!
find the broken wire and renew the wire from the fbox to where ever it goes and also look for the main earth from that loom and remove and replace it . hope this helps