I just had this happen to be today. The #27 20amp fuse was melted.
This happened to mine this morning as well. WTF???
So When it happened first thing I did at 5:00 am trying to leave for work was disconnect battery. Didn't do shit! So I barrowed the old ladys Exploder and she was left to drive her old ratty ass 09 Vette.
So once at work I pull up the ole forum and find this thread. YIPPIE! I figured its prolly the ole #27.
So I was out running parts for work and decided to drive the 5 minutes out of the way to stop and see if it really was #27. Opened the hood and all looked fine from the top. Pulled out my pocket knife and began to try and pry #27 out. Mines a 20amp by the way. Worked at it a few minutes very carefully. Got it out and it was burnt. As many others have had.
I had another fuse of a different style in the junk drawer. Its a 20 amp but the taller type but same width. The contacts stick out the bottom and are not surrounded by plastic. So I stuff it down in. the replacement fuse sticks up out of the hole, the complete yellow plastic portion. It seated in though. So I give it a crank. VARRROOOOOM! YIPPIE!
I closed it up and went back to work. Once back at work I put the burnt fuse under a magnifying scope in inspection. This is what I saw. It basically had burnt a pocket on both sides of one contact on the fuse. The other contact had a slot starting to arc into it on both sides.
From the bottom you can see where the fuse is bulging from the melting. Swoll all up! I surmise that this swelling pushed the fuse block back just enough so the burnt pits lost contact finally.
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I have been running the cat **** out of the truck the last few days. Traffic and stupid ***** abound around here and I have had it. I was in 1st and 2nd for ten minutes before arriving home and had been flogging the truck. Guess it made the fuel pump run a lot? HAhaaaa. Ooops!
I have a call into a guy at my preferred dealer to see if they have the parts for TSB 15-0137. He will let me know tommarra.
Must say this forum rocks as usual. Made it an easy fix. Hope I can get it fixed for FREE! And why again is the fuse getting so hot as to melt the plastic but not blow????
BDRAG