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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: bedford Indiana
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No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
This morning I went out to go to work and my 71 gmc had no dash lights or tail lights or parking lights. I check the fuse under the dash and it was ok. Where should I go to next?
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Location: Reading, Kansas
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
May be a ground issue or maybe the headlight switch itself...........Joe
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Montgomery, TX
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
all the power for these runs through the light switch. check the connections there.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
brake lights don't go through the headlight switch.
Did you test that fuse, or just look at it? They can blow clear up at the end and you can't see it. You defenatly have a power problem, those all run off that one fuse. |
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Location: bedford Indiana
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
I check the fuse its ok, the headlights work fine.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
time to get the test light and find out where you stop getting power. I suspect it'll be close to the fuse box being that it branches out afterwards.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Hattiesburg, MS
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Bentonville AR
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
He said he had no tail lights (running lights I expect)...not brake lights. Parking lights being those side marker lights, or the front amber lights.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
Buck, do your brake lights work?
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Montgomery, TX
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
since you say the headlights are working you must have power to the switch. i would bet there is a bad connection at the switch.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: bedford Indiana
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
longhorn, I have no brake lights.
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#12 |
its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: No dash lights or taillights and parking lights
OK, start at the fuse box, looking for power. remove the fuse, and make sure the holders are not corroded/rusted. You'll probably shatter the fuse removing it, so have glasses on, and have a spare fuse in your pocket.
I am 99% positive your problem is in that area since everything on that circuit is dead...and assumingly all at once. |
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#13 |
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: bedford Indiana
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It was the fuse, I look at the wrong one the first day.
Tks guys. |
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