Fuse 17 Keeps Blowing -a/c

[budat2130]

My 1994 Taurus Wagon keeps blowing the A/C fuse, sometimes it goes for days and other times it will do it in a couple of hours or minutes. Everything was working properly and the lower rad hose popped and spray coolant all over the compressor and everything around it. Since then this blowing fuses has started The A/C blows cold when it works so I don't feel it's the compressor but can't find any bad connections or wires..

Please help if you can

Thanks

Bud

[shorod]

Does it only blow the fuse if you are using the A/C?

Maybe some of the coolant found its way into the A/C clutch field coil which is normally sealed and shorting it out, or maybe coolant in a connection somewhere is causing the short.

Have you pulled all the A/C-related connections, cleaned them, dried them, and re-installed with the dielectric grease? Unlike pure water, coolant will not evaporate easily so it can stay in connections for a long time. It is water-soluble though show you can use de-ionized water to clean the connections.

-Rod