High beam headlights not working
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High beam headlights not working
I added plow lights to my truck and something quit when I had the high beams all on at once. All 4 shut off. Low beams still working. Any ideas what I fried or where to check? Its a 99 F250 superduty.
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yeah on a plow setup you are supposed to have the 6 pin 3 way toggle switch with only 2 on truck or 2 on plow on at a time, i would be willing to say that somewhere in the line you cooked a main feed wire trying to power 4 highbeams off of a 2 light circuit... if you cant get the 6 pin 3 way switch you can always get a 3 pin 3 way switch and run a relay to power the plow lights off of 1 setting on the 3 way switch and the other position on the 3 way switch to the factory headlights, of course with the 3 pin 3 way you will have to wire the toggle switch after your high/low beam switch there... hope you good luck in finding the current issue, but easiest thing i can think is to get a cheap test light if you dont have one and start testing for power from the mfs back towards the battery/fuse block
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the purpose of the fuses is to do exaclty what happened. When you draw to many amps on a circuit, the fuse blows BEFORE the wire gets hot and melts.
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Before I start a new thread, can someone here explain how to remove the headlight enclosure? I see the clip on the top but cannot get it unclipped. (if that's even the right way to remove them)
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Since the cluster indicator works, there is an open circuit at or "downstream" from the splice where that indicator's signal is picked off from the high-beam circuit. That rules out the MFS and all the fuses.
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Sorry about that. I guess having just started here and placed my info into sign up, I didn't think about model etc.
My truck is 2000 F-150 Lariet flair side 5.4 motor. Since the fuses are good, Got any idea what else it be?
My truck is 2000 F-150 Lariet flair side 5.4 motor. Since the fuses are good, Got any idea what else it be?
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Ronny, if you have power to the head light switch, and power out of it to the fuse, and power out of it toward the headlights.... there is a splice in the wire somewhere by the firewall that connects the high beam indicator light. What SHO89 is saying is the wire from the fuse to the bulb is probably bad, and probably near that splice... THis assumes you have power out of the fuse, and no power at the head light plug, and bulbs are known to be good ??