Air conditioning and blown fuses???

[fast88]

I have a 1988 Corvette coupe with the Electronically controlled air conditioning. Since purchasing the car I have attempted to restore the unit to full working order. I have replaced all of the freon lines, the control head, blower relay, accumulator, condensor and had the vac lines and most relays checked for proper operation. The problem is it works now, but keeps blowing fuses located in the pax side fuse panel. The radio and A/C blow and the car runs hot sometimes up to 245 degrees which seems too high. Also I had the voltage drop out to 9.1 and the car just stopped running. I had the battery charged and lead bolts replaced attributing it to an open charging circuit (the negative lead bolt was loose), but the fuses keep popping and I can't get the A/C to run more than about 10 minutes. Does anyone know what could be going on. I suspect the auxiliary cooling fan circuitry may be malfunctioning, but am still learning about the car. I do have service manuals, but havn't had any luck.

[c4c5specialist]

HI there,
Look in your service manual and see what other parts of the car that particular fuse powers.
The problem may be in another part of that circuit.
A blown fuse indicates too much electricity is flowing to the circuit so I would really looking for a rubbed through wire hitting a ground source.
Allthebest, c4c5

[ToolGuy]

I do not think you would do this based off of what I have read here, but do not put a larger sized fuse in its place. If you do, you will over fuse the circuit and blow the component that was blowing the smaller fuse in the first place.

[fast88]

I will look up what is interconnected with the A/C circuit and try that approach. Also, you are right it would make sense that putting a beefier fuse in the originals sted would not be the appropriate solution. Any other ideas I am all ears. Thanks.

[fast88]

I figured out the A/C problem. Seems there were some melted wires under the RH side dash from a short. Cleaned them up and the A/c works great now. Thanks for the input/