6 mos old, fuses keep popping, wiring looks good. Can I fix this on the ocean or do I need to bring it in?

When the fuse blows figure out what you are doing, what switch is being pressed, then remove the needed panels to access the wiring to the switch and motor it operates, then you will find the damaged wiring and repair the short, no quick fix, just hard grunt work.

There is obviously a short to ground. The wire that supplies power to the lights is making contact with ground(gnd) causing the fuses to pop. Two ways to check. One is to physically trace the wire(s) to locate a broken or burnt wire. And the second way, though not recommended is to use a stronger fuse, turn lights on, and look for the smoke-where usually the short circuit is. Good luck.

First you need to check the wiring to the plug and any fuses. If these are good, Then take the top cover off and look around for an internal fuse. Also keep your eyes peeled for any sign of damage or signs of burnt parts.

Have your voltage regulator checked a bad regulator will blow big fuses like a 30amp, hope this helps.

it is a dead ground somewhere...if it started when radio was installed then thats where i would look again,could be something that was overlooked...good luck.

You have a short in the wiring or the the panel or lights.You need to check the wiring carefully from the fuse box to the panel and the lights.You need to look for an area where the wiring might have rubbed through onto the body or another wire.Hope this helps.Good luck.

A short circuit is when any positive wiring touches any metal or bare wire that is grounded (to Neg Battery terminal). this would normally blow a fuse, and might burn some wires and give a burning pungent smell and maybe a little white smoke A Broken/OPEN circuit is when a wire is disconnected, wire broke or corroded so the wire doesn't make good contact. The instrumental panel is supposed to be grounded to the body/ Neg terminal on battery. a corroded ground wire could cause this. electricity has to complete a full circuit any disruption (fuses in Pos Wiring or any break of circuit in neg side wiring, did you ohm check fuse or a contuinity check, some times a bad fuse looks good to the eye . the dimmer switch could be bad, it's a cheap easy fix. do you or any previous owner live near the ocean, salt water causes a lot of corrosion problems in ground connections and dimmer switches . verify fuse good again as described , because you described a intermittent problem its probably the dimmer because a blown fuse can't repair it'self, but a corroded or wornout DIMMER SWITCH WILL MOST DEFINATELY, INTERMITTENTLY make a good connection causing the lights to work or fail spazmotically, so it is the most likely culprit.

start checking all ground wires for a short

i had the same problem on my other 'burb ('90 2wd with same engine).
after dropping the tank ( about 5 miles after i filled it up!) because i thought the pump had cooked, i figured out the fuse had popped, and kept popping occasionally after that. i re-ran the wiring to the fuel pump, and this fixed the problem.
i checked the old wiring for any short/break in the wire, as there was not any visiable signs of a short, but still couldn't find anything concrete to say "this is where the short was!". but, it didn't matter, since the replaced wiring never gave me an issue and i didn't have to replace another fuse again! good luck brother.

If you keep popping fuses everytime you try to start the car, you have a bare hot wire grounding out somewhere. That will cause the fuse to pop everytime you turn the key on. the best way to fix it is if you know someone who is good with electrical wires. Have them pull the fuse panel out and follow the wire until they find where the wire is bare. Have them fix that bad spot and that should fix your problem.