Dr.Jeff
True Classic
On X's with the ceramic "bullet" ("Euro style") fuses, there are two short ones for the headlight pods:
They have not been available for a long time so getting replacements is difficult at best. There have been a few ideas how to substitute, modify, or otherwise get around them. But I may have thought of yet another option.
The brass tabs that hold the fuses in place are a "push" fit into the plastic fuse panel (see pic below). There is a small tang on the rear of the metal tab to hold it in place, similar to the little tang that holds electrical terminals in the plastic connector housings (orange arrow). By moving the tang inward the brass tab can be removed from the plastic holder. Then a brass tab for a regular size fuse can replace it (similar to the green box), by pushing it into the same slot. Now it uses normal sized fuses:
Note that the ones in the picture are the lower tabs, not the one you need to replace. But they mount the same and look very similar.
Naturally you will need to get a couple of the tabs for regular sized fuses. But that shouldn't be difficult to find. A old fuse panel has enough of them to convert a dozen short fuse holders.
The lower example in that picture is the common "bussed" power supply side of most fuses in the X's panel. They can be separated by cutting out the middle piece (blue arrow). That is how the two single tabs (upper portion of the pic) were made.
They have not been available for a long time so getting replacements is difficult at best. There have been a few ideas how to substitute, modify, or otherwise get around them. But I may have thought of yet another option.
The brass tabs that hold the fuses in place are a "push" fit into the plastic fuse panel (see pic below). There is a small tang on the rear of the metal tab to hold it in place, similar to the little tang that holds electrical terminals in the plastic connector housings (orange arrow). By moving the tang inward the brass tab can be removed from the plastic holder. Then a brass tab for a regular size fuse can replace it (similar to the green box), by pushing it into the same slot. Now it uses normal sized fuses:
Note that the ones in the picture are the lower tabs, not the one you need to replace. But they mount the same and look very similar.
Naturally you will need to get a couple of the tabs for regular sized fuses. But that shouldn't be difficult to find. A old fuse panel has enough of them to convert a dozen short fuse holders.
The lower example in that picture is the common "bussed" power supply side of most fuses in the X's panel. They can be separated by cutting out the middle piece (blue arrow). That is how the two single tabs (upper portion of the pic) were made.