Hey guys, I've been reading over the site the past couple days, but I'm not very car savvy.

I recently bought a 1999 Ram 5.9 v8, only has 55,000 miles from one owner. When I bought it, the interior lights and radio didint work. No problem, its a work truck. All worked just fine until one day I pulled it out of the driveway to blow the driveway off after cutting grass. When I went to pull it back in, it was comepletely dead. Went from perfectly fine to absolutely dead in less than 20 minutes. I bought a new battery and it cranked again, but the seatbelts were locked up which they weren't before the battery swap. I looked in the fuse compartment and the number 16 seatbelt fuse pops instantly, same thing with the number 12 IOD fuse.

I drove it for about a week with no seatbelts while trying to research the issue. I went out a few days ago and the battery was comepltely dead again. Trying to jump it with my car and even putting a 120v battery charger on it wouldnt do a thing to it. I swapped the battery out, and it cranks again, but the fuse issues remain. I tried to plug an OBD2 reader in, but of course that doesn't get power.

Any ideas on what to do and where to start?

 

Need to find out why it's blowing the fuse(short somewhere).