Painless Performance - No tail light/dash light issue

[Mountain Man]

I am writing this email so that some day it might help someone else from going thru great amounts of time to fix this problem.

I worked on and off since last fall trying to find the reason why my tail lights / dash lights suddenly stopped working on my 72 chev which is equipped with a new painless performance harness.

To understand the issue, I lost my tail lights/ dash lights after my truck came back from the body shop.

Suspected bad grounding from new paint. This was not the case.

Suspected damaged wiring in the harness running to the tail lights . This was not the case.

Suspected bad grounding of the dash harness. This was not the case.

Suspected the head light switch. This was not the case.

There is no fuse for the tail lights or dash lights on the painless harness, so fuse could not be the case, or so I thought.

I emailed Painless, they told me that there was no fuse for the tail light or dashlight and it must be the headlight switch. I tryed this already so I knew that they were wrong.

The only thing left to do was to verify power to the headlight switch with the different wires. Had only main power going into the switch, but no power coming from the taillight and dash wires.

Then suspected damaged wires coming out of the new fuse panel. Ripped the new panel off of the firewall and traced the wires. Well what do you know. Found the Orange #959 wire connected to a green wire that was coming out of the HORN fuse of all things. Pulled the horn fuse and what do you know, a blown fuse. Replaced it, and immediately had tail lights, dash lights, and marker lights.

The reason for this email is to warn anyone with a painless performance 18 circuit harness that the tail lights/dash lights/side marker lights are fused, contrary to the advise of the Painless tech line, and they are fused at the HORN fuse.

I wish I would have had better advise from the tech line, I wasted alot of time. On the up side, my lights are now working again.