On my way home tonight (well I guess technically last night, but anyways...), I pulled out my CB and stuck my cigarette lighter in. It didnt go straight in at first, and got stuck so I yanked on it to get it out. When I yanked it out, my dome light turned off, and the radio quit working as well, and when I got home, I looked at the cigarette lighter the entire thing had popped out, spring and all. Any ideas on a fix? I can't even figure out how to reassemble the stupid cigarette lighter to plug my CB back in.

 

If you dont smoke why dont you just hardwire your cb in. Also you grounded out the cig lighter when you yanked on it causing your acc fuse to blow! As far as putting it back together show picks of exactly what happened!

 

I'm working on getting it hardwired in, but I need to get some more wire so that I can actually reach the battery but I haven't had time. But now that I have to go get a new fuse, I think I might pick some up, and install it along with my new horn :P

 

Alright, so when I pulled the ACC fuse out, it looks like this:

I haven't seen a fuse like this before--can you find one at any Ace hardware or Lowes?

As for the cigarette lighter, here are the pieces that popped out:

 

Went to napa and replaced the acc fuse, and nothing happened, so I began checking all my fuses. The horn fuse was blown, so I thought I'd replace it while I was there so I could put my new horn in today, and when I replaced it, it all worked again
I went to look at the cigarette lighter, and it turns out the pieces were from the CB adapter, so all is good. Thanks for the help!

 

Im happy you got everything working!

 

When you pulled it apart you probably just caused something to short/ground temporarily and it blew the fuse. It happens. Typically when something electrical fowls up the first place to check are fuses then grounds. Glad it was an easy fix for you. When you hardwire use inline fuses and mount them so you can replace easily when you need to.

 

This is a no-no

This is a self resetting breaker type fuse. Use a standard fuse instead. You blew other fuses because this thing will keep resetting to work again. I know first hand what can happen when wiring goes wrong with these things inline. It will repeatedly click on and off so fast, that it really doesn't interrupt the power flow at all. I've seen a guy come in to a shop where I worked years ago with a burnt trunk because he put one of these on his amp. He was complaining about his amp fuse blowing, I told him we need to look at the amp, he didn't want to pay for repairs... Now he has no trunk!

Please Please Please Please put in a standard fuse... I'd hate to see pics of a toasty blazer here...