04 250 SuperD 140K miles, fantastic truck. This AM started fine but no Instrument panel. Everything, gas guage, oil pressure, speedometer, tach, odometer, trans temp and oil temp bottomed at ZERO. Changed 10 AMP fuse 35 and 41...old fuses looked OK, but changed em anyway. Turn signal indicator works, radio, wipers, everything else seems to be fine. Anyone have any clues?. Thanks

 

what about fuse 45?

 

Fuses sometimes fail but still look good. It would have been best if you had singled out the likely fuse, and then checked it with a VOM.

 

The instrument cluster appears in my diagrams to be connected to fuses #33, 41 and 45. The Owner's Guide also mentions fuse 4, 35 and 41.

 

It happened to me also last year, I work for Ford and 1 of the repairmen told me to unhook battery for awile and it will reset. I unhooked mine overnight and the next day everything was fine. never had a problem since.

 

Thanks to carltonwebb, bpounds, dchamberlain, budman325 for your responses. Fuse # 45 did the trick. Hoist a beer to you all. hen04for

 

This is obviously a newb question, but I've heard that sometimes the OD Off wire in the steering column can chafe and short which will cause the fuse to blow and the cluster to go dead. Is that true?

 

Thats it. Fuse 45 is usually blown when that wire chafes.

Woodnthings sums it up here step by step
https://sites.google.com/site/woodnt...edirects=0&d=1

Up until sometime in late 03, it will take the throttle pedal circuit out when it goes. When they started wiring 04, they removed the throttle off of that fuse and left instrument cluster, tow/haul/ OD button and 4x4

 

Yes this is true. Just happened to me about a week ago. I pushed the tow/haul button and my gage cluster went dead. Fuse #45.