[97teejay]

Wow, my bad, figured it out!! Thanks Terry for reminding me about the secondary fuse box. to be honest i completly forgot about it, i had been pulling the door switch fuse behind the glove box but what i realized is that is protected on the ground circuit (had full continuity with ground) so it never has power going thru it, whoops. So when the light shorted out it managed to blow that 10 amp (fuse panel behind the glove box) and another 10 amp under the hood that protects the hot side. Easy fix, what can i say, i'm a Jeep rookie.

I think i'm still going to pick up a repair manual still, i would have saved a lot of time screwing around if i found out that fuse was for the ground leg.

thanks for all your time!! while i have these lights out, i'm going to switch the interior lights to LED :) Much brighter & don't run so hot.