I am currently fighting with my turn signals.

After my last off road trip my turn fuse keeps burning out.  I replaced it and it works fine until I start driving and then it burns out.  I replaced it and checked for shorts and could not find any.  I reset some wires so they would not touch anything and the turn signals worked while parked but as soon as I started driving it burned out again.  I am at a loss and have no turn signals.  My hazard flashers work fine all the time so I don't get it.   By the way the Chilton book sucks I couldn't find anything remotely referenced the turn signal circuit.

I also had a plug that went into the brake fluid resevoir that was unplugged, again no reference in the Chilton book.  I plugged it in and everything still seems to work, except my turn signals of course.

 Any help would be appreciated

Electrical problems are tough to diagnose over the internet. I'd remove all the bulbs, clean the sockets and clean all the grounds I could find. You said the fuse doesn't blow until you drive it, could the short be in the brake light wiring? Does it have wiring for a trailer?

I agree with TN_Tracker.  Clean all the bulbs and check all of your connections.  It can be very difficult to trace.  Usually something like that is a wire that is grounding out somewhere.  I would start from the very beginning and check the resistance of the wires with a meter.  If you bite it off in little chuncks, it will hopefully expose itself.   Until then, don't make any turns

Good luck

if it is a trackick look behind the left tail light, there is a molex plug that can get corroded very easily. could also be in the turn signal switch.

derek

I'm hoping for a short somewhere. Not too costly to fix.   It is odd because they were fine until I went down a very rocky mountain road.  Now the current problem.

I'll keep you posted if I find it

Thanks for all the help thus far

Excellent advice everyone.

It never dawned on me that everything worked fine until I started the Kick and started driving.   Once I realized that the fuse would pop once I backed out and started driving and you suggested removing all the bulbs I took a more methodical approach.  Finally I tracked it down to blowing when I reversed out of the driveway.  Then the smirk of stupidity came over me and I realized that the fuse is marked turn/back

After all of that it turned out to be in the reverse lights.  I replaced the bulbs and am flashing everyone once more with bright lights