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It looked like it was just a red wire from the kill switch connected to fuse #8. It didn't look like the wire was connected to anything other than the fuse and the switch.
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I have no idea, it was kind of butchered but I'll have to pull it out today and figure it out and let you know
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So I took the kill switch out and it didn't make a difference. Then I wanted to trace the wires from the idm and the fuse box so I lifted up the fuse box and looked under it and I didn't see any bad wires. So I put it back together and tried to start the truck again, and it's alive but the confusing thing is that it started with the fuse that was supposedly blown. So now I'm confused
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But I took it out and it still wouldn't start. It wasn't till after messing with the wires that it started
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Take a look at the base where the supposedly blown fuse presses into, to make sure the base is making contact with the fuse blades. My son spent 2 days trying to figure out why his early 99 Superduty quit on him. What he finally found was that the fuse base and become spread open, and was not making contact with the blades of the fuse, on the load side of the fuse.
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Take a look at the base where the supposedly blown fuse presses into, to make sure the base is making contact with the fuse blades. My son spent 2 days trying to figure out why his early 99 Superduty quit on him. What he finally found was that the fuse base and become spread open, and was not making contact with the blades of the fuse, on the load side of the fuse.
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That kill switch HAD to have OPENED the circuit somewhere; otherwise it wouldn't have worked as a kill switch. My guess is that they somehow tied it directly to that terminal in the fuse box that farmert describes above, and they might well have damaged it in the process, or dislocated it or something. So +1; inspect those base terminals. Bright light and magnifying glass might help.
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