RENAMED!! The adventures of Chase and his 2006 Yukon XL Denali!! Follow along on my travels!

[Fosscore]

Nice work man. You are taking those painting projects seriously now. I like the efforts. Looking sweet!

 

[adventurenali92]

Nice work man. You are taking those painting projects seriously now. I like the efforts. Looking sweet!

Thanks friend!! Slowly but surely getting paint better. Hopefully I can get it as good as your paint skills! Lol

 

[Fosscore]

Thanks friend!! Slowly but surely getting paint better. Hopefully I can get it as good as your paint skills! Lol

Thanks man. The paint shop did hook me up with the big parts. Always a good feeling when the small parts you do come out the way you hoped and gives you the confidence to tackle another part. Keep up the good work.

 

[adventurenali92]

Rides and coffee didn’t disappoint with cool rides today!

 

[adventurenali92]

Well after rides and coffee headed to Huntington Beach with my close friend. Her birthday was today so we had lunch at bomb burgers and caught some of the US open surf Comp. too crowded to stay so we ended up in Laguna beach. As much as I dislike California and it’s nonsense, I love the Pacific Ocean and being able to be there in two hours from home! And of course the Denali rode like a champ all day! Love my rig!

 

[adventurenali92]

So magically my esky third tail light stopped working after I swapped the bases a week and a half ago. I’m like WTF?!?! All I did was unplug the pigtail and plug it back in after the base was done. Ugh..... so I pulled all the wires out of the google and checked connections. All were good. Pulled the fuse panel beside my drivers area and the 10A fuse was fine. I’m like uhh now what?! So I pulled the wires back out and one was loose so I clipped off the connectors and re did both wires. Still no go!! Mind you the esky pigtail down to my Yukon’s stock pigtail are mated together above the pigtail and the top where it comes out of the body of the truck. So I pulled the whole harness out and the two wires coming out of the Yukon pigtail were a bit frayed:


So I searched for a few days and my local NAPA has a replacement and could get it brought up the mountain from the warehouse the next morning. That was Thursday. Paid for it and Friday mid day went to pick it up in between work thinking if I replaced the pigtail and wires it would solve the problem! Wrong, a whole box of parts coming up got lost and sent to the wrong store and my pigtail was in that box!! I was so angry..... and she could only get a replacement sent from their Sacramento warehouse which would take a week.... she ended up giving me a refund.
So this morning I got up and said screw I’m heading to Hesperia to pick apart.... an hour away.....
well this particular one is always well stocked and now well stocked with lots of NBS trucks to pick through which is great for me. I grabbed a pigtail off an 04 xl SLT and swapped it in this afternoon after work. Still no go, in fact it blew the 10A fuse!! Ugh....... so I unplugged the esky pigtail and checked to make sure all my wires were connected. Still all good on all the connections no shorts... And of course I didn’t have any spare 10A fused laying around and the parts store was already closed....
so out of desperation I had a 15A fuse sitting there so I threw it in.... and what do you know the damn light works now!! Ooi... what a pain in the butt that was!

 

[HiHoeSilver]

So magically my esky third tail light stopped working after I swapped the bases a week and a half ago. I’m like WTF?!?! All I did was unplug the pigtail and plug it back in after the base was done. Ugh..... so I pulled all the wires out of the google and checked connections. All were good. Pulled the fuse panel beside my drivers area and the 10A fuse was fine. I’m like uhh now what?! So I pulled the wires back out and one was loose so I clipped off the connectors and re did both wires. Still no go!! Mind you the esky pigtail down to my Yukon’s stock pigtail are mated together above the pigtail and the top where it comes out of the body of the truck. So I pulled the whole harness out and the two wires coming out of the Yukon pigtail were a bit frayed:

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So I searched for a few days and my local NAPA has a replacement and could get it brought up the mountain from the warehouse the next morning. That was Thursday. Paid for it and Friday mid day went to pick it up in between work thinking if I replaced the pigtail and wires it would solve the problem! Wrong, a whole box of parts coming up got lost and sent to the wrong store and my pigtail was in that box!! I was so angry..... and she could only get a replacement sent from their Sacramento warehouse which would take a week.... she ended up giving me a refund.
So this morning I got up and said screw I’m heading to Hesperia to pick apart.... an hour away.....
well this particular one is always well stocked and now well stocked with lots of NBS trucks to pick through which is great for me. I grabbed a pigtail off an 04 xl SLT and swapped it in this afternoon after work. Still no go, in fact it blew the 10A fuse!! Ugh....... so I unplugged the esky pigtail and checked to make sure all my wires were connected. Still all good on all the connections no shorts... And of course I didn’t have any spare 10A fused laying around and the parts store was already closed....
so out of desperation I had a 15A fuse sitting there so I threw it in.... and what do you know the damn light works now!! Ooi... what a pain in the butt that was! View attachment 204798 View attachment 204799

Make sure you put it back to 10 when you can get a new one. You don't want to start melting stuff if you're really over drawing the 10.

 

[adventurenali92]

Make sure you put it back to 10 when you can get a new one. You don't want to start melting stuff if you're really over drawing the 10.

But won’t it just blow the 10?

 

[HiHoeSilver]

But won’t it just blow the 10?

Not necessarily. You don't really know what blew it to begin with. If there's a dead short somewhere, it's gonna blow the 15, too. Maybe one of those frayed wires contacted the body. My money says you didn't over draw the 10. The bottom line is that fuses are sized for the gauge of wire in the circuit they're protecting. Unless you're 100% sure all the wire in that circuit can handle 15 amps, you should leave it at 10. If the fuse is rated higher than the wire, the wire itself becomes the fuse.

 

[adventurenali92]

Not necessarily. You don't really know what blew it to begin with. If there's a dead short somewhere, it's gonna blow the 15, too. Maybe one of those frayed wires contacted the body. My money says you didn't over draw the 10. The bottom line is that fuses are sized for the gauge of wire in the circuit they're protecting. Unless you're 100% sure all the wire in that circuit can handle 15 amps, you should leave it at 10. If the fuse is rated higher than the wire, the wire itself becomes the fuse.

Wow..... um im lost. Lol. Electrical is not my forte... im gonna pick up a few more 10A fuses in the morning on my way to work. But what bugs me is I don’t know why it blew. And if I put the 10A back in and it blows again I have no idea what the next step is to fix the problem.....