Radio blew a fuse and dash started smoking

[Eliwab22]

I was on my way home and my radio shut off, then I heard a pop and started smelling a burnt smell and smoke. I pulled my radio and saw some wires had melter together (not sure how) I fixed those and replaced the fuse but when I turned it on there was smoke from behind the gauges and the fuse blew again. Any ideas what to do?


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[ouch1011]

You probably have more burnt wires in the dash harness. What fuse is blowing?

I've previously had to remove the dash on a 2nd gen Ram that came into the shop because they had a short, but decided to "fix" it by installing a higher amp fuse. It turned their wiring into a fuse. Not sure how they didn't burn the truck to the ground based off of how much stuff it burnt. I had to rebuild about 50% of the dash wiring harness wire by wire.