Reply to "Fuel gauge fuse blowing on me."

OK I'm trying to make sense of this.

Looking at the backside of the gauges, my amp gauge has a big hotty wire, with another big red wire going up to what I assume might be the ignition.

The red hotty wire comes from one of the aftermarket relays installed by the previous owner.

On the back of the amp gauge the rubber/plastic insulator caps show they've been melted (things have gotten REAL hot).

The amp gauge I'm not sure works or not. It moves a tiny bit, but never swings or changes when I open the windows.

It's obviously gotten REALLY hot, these are BIG wires, and the rubber/plastic insulator caps that go over the screw are melted away.

I THINK this is where my problem may lie.

Maybe my voltage regulator is over-amping? If so, wouldn't a relay pop?

I was told to cycle the inginition twice before starting to prime the fuel system, could this do anything funny?

The other things like my lights seem to be just corroded fuses. Corrosion is super accellerated, or maybe this is just Lucas?

Presently, the fuse lasts about 5-10 seconds then pops.

The amp gauge seems to still work (it moves minutely) but fuel and oil pressure gauges die with the fuse.

I'll study the diagrams posted earlier and see if i can make any sense of this.