> > The ground wire gets hot, melts the plastic > sleeve, touches the 86 (+) wire and short everything. > This is backwards. The ground wire from the relay only carries about 200 milliamps -- a 24-ga wire would be more than enough electrically. I think your insulation chafed against the 86 terminal and shorted the wire to that terminal, causing meltdown the next time you run the headlights. That line is not fused -- all four fuses are downstream of it. Yrs, d |
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