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Old 03-08-2011, 10:55 PM   #21
TheWhiteElephant
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Re: did the dash wireing in my truck today

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Originally Posted by 1tonchevy View Post
What gounds?...just every ground on the truck?
Yes, I would check every ground on the truck. There really aren't too many. I had some crazy issues on my taillights. They were working all wacky. I replaced all the switches I could find, and I narrowed the problem down to bad grounds on both taillamps.

The taillamps on my '73 K20 have one ground to the left inner bedside. When I rebuilt the taillight harness, I made 1 ground per side and grounded them to each inner bedside, and then from the same bolt I ran a wire down to the frame and all was solved.

You should have the taillamps ground to the bed, a ground from the bed to the frame, battery (-) to alternator bracket or engine block, radiator support to frame, headlamps to radiator support, firewall to engine head, engine cluster to dash frame, and some others I probably forgot.

One thing I learned in my quest is that if the issue is a crazy one, it is likely a bad ground.

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