As I was driving down the road today I reached down to the bottom of the dash to adjust something. When I did my instrument cluster stopped working and, while the engine will idle, it will do nothing else. It still starts and stops fine. I checked all of the fuses I could find and nothing was blown. I tried replacing them to no avail. I can only think a wire came lose when I reached down there but I pray that's not it. I bought the truck used and they did a number of things to it, the wires are a bucket of yuck down there that I do not relish trying to dig into. Any thoughts?

 

Sorry, it's a 1999 F250 with the 7.3L

 

On the 6.0 there is a BCM programmed shutdown of the instrument panel when there is insufficient electric power.

I don't know your ride, but I would check for alternator / battery first.

 

Even though everything else works fine? When it first happened I stopped and crawled under the dash to look. I jiggled a few things and I was able to get the truck to drive again, just no instrument panel gauges (everything else works except the gauges, speedo, tach and most of the warning lights). I got home and though that the wire I had touched must have been what was wrong and lost the ability to do anything but idle again. It still starts, etc without any problems.

 

Bad connections.

Corrosion, dust... see thread below... bet you have the same problem.

 

I have 2004 f250 6.0 and I made the right positive lead on battery spark while it was running..i was removing power wire to amp and it sparked a little. After that my instrument lights tail lights and fog lights quit working . As per your post is there a reset or something for my problem ?
Thanks!