I am having a problem with my 99 Dodge Caravan, 3.3l. A few days ago the cluster/gauges stopped working, they
had lights just no tack, spedo, fuel..etc... When driving the van home it was stuck in second gear. I replaced the fuse
for the cluster and it worked for a short while, long enough to go out to dinner...then it went out again. This time only
it started to blow the fuse everytime you turned the ignition on. I was also having a couple of problems with the IOD fuse
under the hood. Not sure if they are related? Anyways. Everytime I install a new fuse and try to turn the engine over it
will blow the guages fuse and I mean every single time...I have gone through 15 bucks worth of fuses.
I have tried many things, I heard of a bad ground pin on the cluster board...so I checked that and it was fine. I even
tried the replacing the fuse with the cluster unpluged and it still blew. Sounds to me like a short somewhere. Or is there
a different device controlling the voltage to this?
From looking at the electrical scematics it looks as if this circuit runs into the "Body Control Module" Would be the Red/White
wire. Looks as if there is a grounding point for this circuit as well somewhere with the ignition gound. Any suggestions, is
there a voltage regulator on this model? Is it possibly the PCM or BCM? Help...!!??