I do not have any head lights or running lights on my 1960 ford f-250

i have turn signal lights and brake lights but no head lights or running lights

is there a fuse or resistor anywhere

where do i start to look?

thanks in advance

steve

 

Welcome to FTE

There is no such thing as running lights on these trucks. Running lamps are on all the time the ignition switch is turned on (like newer GM and Toyota vehicles).

What you prolly are referring to are called parking (turn signal) lamps. The parking lamps turn off automatically when the headlamps are turned on, because that's how the lamps operated back then on trucks...and cars.

Pull the headlamp switch **** all the way out, then click on the dimmer switch. The dimmer switch is one of the usual causes why the headlamps don't work.

Peeps click on the switch to change to hi beams, but when the switch is history, the headlamps go out.

 

Sorry

I meant parking lights

My son in law mentioned the dimmer switch

He said if the swith is bad

No head lights

I will look into changing it out

p.s. are parking lights associated with the dimmer switch?

thanks

 

The dimmer switch is used only to change the headlamps from hi to low beams and vice versa. Has nothing to do with anything else.

There are two positions on the headlamp switch, pulling the **** out to the first position turns on the parking lamps.

Pulling the **** all the way out (to the second position) turns on the headlamps, the parking lamps then turn off automatically.

People than own modern vehicles assume things work the same way on older vehicles, but this is not the case, and this is one example of many.