Jeepman659

I've searched the cherokee forum but to no avail. and I'm wondering on my brothers 94 Jeep Cherokee i'm replacing fuses on the panel under the dash and the little tabs that the fuses plug into have either been pushed through or something. curious as to what to put in there to replace them? or what's the best option here? Thank you in advance to anyone who has advice.

Radi

Not all of the fuse positions are used, the unused ones have no clips, or sometimes just the "power" clip with no "load" clip. If you check against the manual, are these fuse positions actually in use?

Jeepman659

Yes specifically number 7 is what i'm looking for because this is the one that controls the tail lights and etc. which my little brother is fixing, because while his headlights and etc work the tail running lights do not or the dashboard lights both in the chilton mnual list this fuse as the cause of this problem.

Jeepman659

does anyone know any options to fixing this other than replacing the fuse panel?

Radi

I've never pulled the fuse block to see how it's assembled. Might be an easy fix....might be a nightmare, lol.
Could always remove the affected circuits from the box and wire in new leads with inline fuses.

Radi

Edit...removed duplicate post.

Potatowalker

My first instinct would be to go to the JY and get another fuse panel and then either swap the whole panel if it has all the right connections, or try and pull the parts needed and swap just those. I've never had the panel off before though so not sure if that's very realistic? If that didn't work, I'd probably just bypass the fuse box and do an in-line fuse with new wiring.

On a side note, I had my rear panels out and found a good bit of abrasion on the wire harnesses just in front of the tail light assemblies. It may be worth your time to just run all new wires (or at least follow the old ones and check continuity) while you're at it since a shorted wire or bad connection could also cause a failure!

My 96 has had cracked, corroded, broken or just plain missing wires in half the thing's I've had to fix lately!

allsierra123

I have the same issue on my 88 as well. It is not tight enough to hold the fuse in. When it shakes loose I lose my brake and tail lights. I am also curious as to how it comes apart. Im half afraid to tear into it as its my daily driver.

freegdr

heres what to do with loose fuses buy these thf fuse sits in them i used just the part in the circle then push it back in should hold it tight

freegdr

as for this issue theres four strips that supply power to the fuses, there indicated by the lines they clip into the back of the box if you remove the front section of the box where fuses are you can pull the box out and see them, i cut the fuse wire with the issue and spliced back into the feed wire to the strip that supplied it thru fuse box and installed a in line fuse holder. wires are color coded just tripple check b4 cutting any thing.and make sure no wires get pinched when putting it back together...AND DISCONNECT THE BATTERY.

allsierra123

What are those called? And did you cut the rest off? I was thinking of trying that before pulling it all apart and splicing wires.

freegdr

i googled fuse taps ive got all kinda stuff ive colllected thru the years i had them in the tool box

allsierra123

Thanks tons that should keep it tight.

freegdr

still holding for me over 2 years now no issues

Jeepman659

Okay first off thank you very much freedgr. for all the information and helping out the other member. and also would those clips work if there are no taps there in the first place? because on my 94 Cherokee that i'm fixing there are no taps at all in the panel so I'm going to take off the front part of the panel and see what's possible under there. and look into the part that you showed in your picture.