'87 Accord Dash lights & exterior drive lights problem - FIXED

My '87 Accord all of a sudden lost its dash cluster lights, exterior drive lights. Keeps blowing # 14 fuse (dash fuse box). Removed bulbs from the front side marker lights- Fixed. hope this helps someone.

T

Have you tried different bulbs for it? Doesn't make any sense why a bulb would cause the fuse to blow. I'm guessing that you have a small short somewhere overloading the circuit and removing the side marker bulbs puts less load on the circuit and won't blow the fuse. Try removing your tail bulbs and leave the side marker bulbs and see if it doesn't blow the fuse too.

Thanks for your reply, I spent over 4 hours removing all the connections (rear lights, license lights, dash dimmer, etc) with a ohm meter still reading around 1 ohm (short circuit) on the fuse#14 load side. Only until I removed the bulbs from the driver' front marker light the short was gone. As soon as i get some new bulbs, then I can find out for sure.

T

It's not unusual for the bulb sockets to go bad. Make sure that they aren't grounding out through the bulb housing or something.

Good idea, one of the marker lens was cracked so I just ordered two brand new ones with bulbs ( so both sides match). This took a lot of time to find the problem, so hopefully this will help some else out there.

T