The DOWNSIDE of rotating your fuses....
 

Been doing it for years, then I started getting an intermittent short on my DME power. Which is a bad thing because the engine dies.....

This is the reason.

The spinning wore the tip off. The terminal was also warm to the touch, but never blew. Never thought to take a look at the ends....looks a new project. Checking every fuse end.

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It has been my experience that it is not the rotating that does the damage, just the relatively weak point of contact with this style of fuse. My solution is periodic fuse replacement and terminal cleaning.

Well that is my project....inspection of each fuse and replacement of worn.....

Anyone know the proper fuse for the 3.6 DME? It's currently wired to my #1, at 16 amp which was the foglight for SC....it was an unused fuse.

Also make sure you use the ceramic fuses not those crappy plastic ones.

And who sells ceramics? All I see are plastics.....I'm about ready to yank it all and go with modern dual blade.

I try to keep the ceramics,..but do have a stash of plastic ones.

Another picky thing I do is to mount them so that there's no opposing tension (DURING THE MOUNTING) on that top cone shaped piece that would induce movement of that cap,..THEN I spin them so that the element is facing outwards. I once had a top piece move from it's position on the fuse while installing it with the element outwards...just something I watch.

BEST!

Doyle

that looks pretty bad anyway.

one other thing you can do. one at a time, remove the wires to the fuse block. clean the ends if you can along witht he screw that holds them inplace. any place you can reduce corrosion reduces resistance which reduces heat.

dielectric grease! my fuses do not corrode anymore...