I believe I have factory cab lights all the housings are cracked badly and the wire colors are the same as shown in Brads "how to install cab light thread" but the holes for the sockets are not half circles like in Brads first picture of the OEM lights, they are full circles.


Anyways, I replaced the housings and bulbs with the smoke lenses and added LED's to them to go with the theme of the truck. They were working fine and then I took the truck to get painted and then all of a sudden no more cab lights. I checked fuses, I checked for pinched wires (I just added vinyl flooring to the truck not that it would really impact anything) also I checked the harness behind the passenger side kick panel. With my test light I checked the power cable at the the cab lights and there is not power coming to them at all (yes, I had the headlight **** pulled out) It is really annoying to not have cab lights after a fresh coat of paint on the cab it all just looks incomplete.


On a possibly related note there was a hole drilled into the drivers side a pillar with 2 white wires running down the pinch weld where the weatherstrip mounts but they went to absolutely nothing. I am getting agitated.


I appreciate all comments/advise.

 

Do you have power at the passenger kick panel plug?

 

I spent all day yesterday trying to hunt down wres. It turns out the PO did not have an OEM harness on there. It was an aftermarket harness up there with the OE wire colors and housings. I ended up following the wire from the drivers A-pillar and still nothing but then I popped the hood and there was 2 white wires poorly spliced into the headlights. I ended up undoing all of that and getting some brown and black wire and splicing the cab lights into the headlight switch and then grounding it to the body.


They all work now. I would rather have the OEM set up but until I move back home from college this will work. (The junkyards here usually crush these trucks and older for scrap because not many people get parts for them so there is no way to get any of that stuff for my truck. Thanks for the reply Brad I need to talk to the guy who did my body work and am getting more and more displeased by some of the dumb things that were done, no attention to detail.