Need some help please..........!

TexasNomad · Dec 10, 2008

Ok guys I'm at a lose here the gauge lights are out and I don't know what to do now i've checked the fuse

What I have found is there is no juice going to my gauge lights
what I want to know is what could be causing this can some one please tell me which wires are the wires that go to the gauge lights
I would like to know before I start tracing wires back.

And could any of these things have any thing to do with the lights going out.

Mil1ion · Dec 10, 2008

The cluster lighting is Blue/ red stripe wire.

The SPECIAL Blue coded fuse is hard to find in stores.

I'll be back with more info

TexasNomad · Dec 10, 2008

Mil1ion said:
The cluster lighting is Blue/ red stripe wire.

The SPECIAL Blue coded fuse is hard to find in stores.

I'll be back with more info

thank you so much Mil1ion, I've never heard of a blue coded fuse?
And so you mean the blue and the red wire or blue red striped wire.

Mil1ion · Dec 10, 2008

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radialarm · Dec 10, 2008

Could be the plug on the headlight switch or the switch. The plug sometimes gets corroded.

TexasNomad · Dec 10, 2008

I checked that Rob he seems to be working good.
I know the fuse isn't bad because all those other things are working.
Ok I checked the red and blue wire is getting no power.
Do I need to cut open the harness and start tracing wires?

smokey · Dec 10, 2008

I would say the switch. the dimmer that is built in the switch can go out. I have ran into this once or twice in the past. Try to swap in another switch and see if that is it if you have one handy.

TexasNomad · Dec 10, 2008

I can pop the one out of my truck.
But I checked all the wires coming/going out of the switch and they are all juice

CowboyBilly9Mile · Dec 11, 2008

TexasNomad said:
........But I checked all the wires coming/going out of the switch and they are all juice

So next I'd pull the harness at the cluster and verify that there's power there. If not I'd look at a schematic, backtrack to the splice/junction on that curcuit, and check for juice at that point. If so (power at gauge lights), I'd verify that the ground for the lights on the cluster is good. I assume there's at least one good bulb in the cluster.

Bob Ayers · Dec 11, 2008

Check the rheostat on the headlight switch.

TexasNomad · Dec 11, 2008

Bob Ayers said:
Check the rheostat on the headlight switch.

Whats a rheostat?
Sounds like some thing a Woman's doctor uses.......

CowboyBilly9Mile · Dec 11, 2008

TexasNomad said:
Whats a rheostat?

Variable resistor.

TexasNomad · Dec 11, 2008

Oh is that in anny of the pictures I took?
I don't know were thats at

Mil1ion · Dec 11, 2008

When you turn the headlight switch knob it turns the rheostat.

Brighter- dimmer lights

TexasNomad · Dec 11, 2008

OH! the headlight switch :nana:

Thanks guys i'm going to dive in to this after lunch

CowboyBilly9Mile · Dec 11, 2008

On the other hand, if the light on the heater controls is working and the brightness can be changed with the dimmer, then you can rule out that dimmer.

TexasNomad · Dec 11, 2008

Well ya all those lights are working fine.

CowboyBilly9Mile · Dec 11, 2008

TexasNomad said:
Well ya all those lights are working fine.

And they dim when you rotate the knob on the headlight switch too?

TexasNomad · Dec 11, 2008

Yes and I had said that before I thought...
But yes every thing seems to be working.

CowboyBilly9Mile · Dec 11, 2008

TexasNomad said:
Yes and I had said that before I thought...
But yes every thing seems to be working.

NP, just verifying. I stand by what I said in post #16 then.

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