Tail Light Problems on '97 F150
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Tail Light Problems on '97 F150
Help! I've been reading about all sorts of weird electrical problems. Here's mine.... my tail lights do not work. I have brake lights, turn signals and back up lights but no tail lights. I've checked bulbs and fuses to no avail.
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hay josh, I have the same delimma on my 93 f-250 except it is with my horse trailer. the trailer has brake lites, turn, hazzard, and the elect. brakes work, but NO trailer lites.!!!! I checked the connector and its good, i even checked for power at the connector with a meter, someone told me it might be a grounding problem. You might want to check that out.
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As of 1996. the tail-lamp wiring was still brown. I am going to assume it is still a brown wire for 1997 also.
There is no reliable way to figure out what's going on without a test light or a multi-meter. There is a logical flow of the circuit from the fuse box, to the headlamp switch, down the harness, toward the rear lamps. You are losing it along the way, and the only way to find out where you are losing the circuit voltage is by testing at points along the circuit to see if you have voltage. If your brake/turn filaments work, we can assume the ground is ok at the rear lamps, or the brake/turn wouldn't work correctly either.
There is no reliable way to figure out what's going on without a test light or a multi-meter. There is a logical flow of the circuit from the fuse box, to the headlamp switch, down the harness, toward the rear lamps. You are losing it along the way, and the only way to find out where you are losing the circuit voltage is by testing at points along the circuit to see if you have voltage. If your brake/turn filaments work, we can assume the ground is ok at the rear lamps, or the brake/turn wouldn't work correctly either.
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