brake lights stop working, they keep blowing the fuse an rear flashers dont work

[83countrysquire]

this is in the tudor. Brake lights keep blowing the fuse and they stop working. Also the rear flashers are not working and my blinker broke (the could be the problem causing a short) but anyone else now wat it could be.

[87_crown_vic]

most common problem is the ground wire. it is in the trunk driver side almost under the driver tail light. i have had issues with this before on Baby and on the grand marquis. it is a single wire screwed into the metal to ground it. if the ground fails it will cause the taillights not to werk. if it is a bad connection it wil cause the 3rd brake light to be on when lights are turned on and make 3rd brake light to flash with the signals. i would check the ground wire and add a piece of wire to make a better ground somplace else in the trunk.

[86VickyLX]

but it blowing the fuse? It just sounds like a bare wire that is grounding somewhere.

[Tiggie]

In addition to the above, check the wiring at the brake light switch.

[import convert]

check the ground to be safe but it does sound like the positive side of the circuit is gounding somewhere it should be. the bad part is that youd have to follow the wire to the fuse box and make sure none of it is exposed.

[86VickyLX]

Do you put stuff in the trunk a lot? Or something? I'm just tossing out ideas. You may have unintentionally stripped the wire somehow and that's why the lights aren't working

[83countrysquire]

well i fixed it turned out that my blinker switch broke into metal pieces and was shorting out my system i first did check the grounds but found nothing and than checked some wires to see if it was grounding and than yanked the blinker/hazard assembly off and found my problem so i just took the one off the 83 and thru it on here