im pretty sure its one of the black wires yes.. not 100% sure though

 

http://www.wiringdiagrams21.com/2008...wiring-diagram

Here is the wiring diagram for your cherokee (way better than haynes manuals)
password is: wiringdiagrams21.com

Noticed you have the little red and little blues wrong
red-blue: park fuse
dk blue: clock,rear tail, license plate,front park/marker lights

This tells me that something is shorted in the blue - i know you said you are 110% sure that is not the case but no other option is available...

 

how do i log in .. and no i didnt say it wasnt the blue wire.. thats the one that gets real hot thats the one that has the problem

 

never mind i got it but the computer im on right now cant read the file.. can you just save the pic of the wiring diagram and post it on here?

 

hope this helps

 

thanks man

 

Good luck!!

 

so i gave power to those wires one at a time.. none turned on my licenseplate light wich i know worked before.. the rear parking lights were pretty dim.. and my clock never light up in the first place

 

well, sounds like something with those... maybe the license plate light is shorted....

It is kind of hard to predict (like predicting the final 4)

 

ha.. well.. this is really irratating....

 

try running a lead outside of the jeep to the tail lights and the license light and see if you can get them to light up, then if you have a multimeter trying checking the resistance of the original wires.

 

well they were lit they just were dim .. all the power is drawn to the front ones they were bright

 

hmmm..... when you said you rewired, did you replace the wires from the light bulb to the switch or did you just cut out the head light switch?

 

what do you mean from the light bulb to the switch.. i replaced all wires except for the ones under the kick panel

 

different gauge wires would cause this. Also, if the rear lights wiring has a minor short (more resistance) the electricity will travel the path of lease resistance (to the front)