Check your fuses!!!

[Willys2Gladiator]

Just poking around under the hood. Open the fuse cover and pushed down on a few fuses. Almost every fuse was able to be pushed down more? I'm sure their in enough and secure but I was able to push every fuse down. Especially the large grey ones.
Piece of mind if nothing else.

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[johnparjr]

Pretty common on the JL it was like that as well and their is a huge thread on it some people had really loose ones. I had a few that could have been snugged up a little better but nothing real bad

 

[ShotCaller]

yep..a lot of mine were not fully seated. they were not really loose....just not seated good.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Pretty common on the JL it was like that as well and their is a huge thread on it some people had really loose ones. I had a few that could have been snugged up a little better but nothing real bad

Common on many vehicles, frankly. They are plenty deep for connectivity for the load, the biggest thing is to have them seated fully for the future - the hot/cold cycles can cause some to work out over years.
When I pulled the PDC out of the Jeep to put in my car, the fuses were not all 100% as far as they'd go, and that was a Jeep over a decade old.

 

[93civej1]

I just noticed this on mine earlier today. I hadn’t even seen this post until now. I found it odd that so many of mine were not in all the way.

 

[ShotCaller]

I just noticed this on mine earlier today. I hadn’t even seen this post until now. I found it odd that so many of mine were not in all the way.

I also found it very odd. Why would they leave them like that ?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Because they are fine. The non-auto electricians will panic over this, those who specialize in auto-electric know it's not a problem electrically.
Even half-way in there won't be appreciable voltage drop. Want to check and see - open the PDC or fuse panel, use a volt meter across the wires going to and from the fuse while under load - I'd bet you won't see a drop.
There's plenty of current-carrying connection there. In some cases, a better connection than those PINS you rely on in the door connectors.
It's a physical thing, not an electrical thing.
I'd bet these are inserted automatically, not be human, There's likely a measured force applied and when they reach that threshold, it stops pushing.

What I saw in my own was only an OCD thing, not an electrical thing. I work auto-electric most of the days I'm in my shop and I'm not concerned.

Pull the bigger fuses out and look at them and note the contact area - compared to the cross-section of the wire it's protecting, and to the pins in other connectors. Frankly, I'm more concerned about some of the other connections I see in these things, not the fuses.

 

[ShotCaller]

I'm more worried about hitting a big pot hole in the road and having one come out than an electrical issue. A loose fuse can cause alot of problems.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

But they aren't loose so much as not seated deep/hard. Every fuse I have checked in every jeep hasn't been fully down against the stop and yet - one popping out? You know that for something like that to "pop out" over a bump or pot hole requires that it have enough mass to do so. These? Fractions of an ounce.
People are concerned over something that hasn't happened and the odds of it ever happening are pretty much nil.
They aren't loose. It takes more effort to remove them than they have mass to use popping out.
Physics.

Even in this day and age we have the sort of mentality that when someone suggests something is a problem, it becomes a problem even though it's not.

Find reports of fuses actually "popping out" on the JT - aside from those who are afraid they would, I mean REALLY actually have vs. the fear that one or two posts seems to instill.

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