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I'm trying to get my truck road ready when it decided to start smoking from behind dash. I pulled dash panel and found this.
It was not connected to anything and what looks like a fuse holder was touching a ground
it only has power with key on
Anyone know what this connector is for?
I plan on breaking out the soldering iron out tomorrow and fixing this and some other questionable wireing before it becomes a problem
Matt believe you are correct factory radio plug. The inline fuse holder (white 1/2 part hanging out the bottom) I bet was a PO installed item. DAMN PO (Previous Owners). Did it get into any other wire bundles?
See if you can follow those wires back to where the discoloration ends, and determine the insulation colors. One of the wires should be light blue with a red stripe, and that powers the light in an OEM radio's dial. The other one should be yellow(?) and that is switched 12V+ from the "radio" fuse.
Alternately you could power up the truck (once you're sure you've separated the short) and probe those wires with a meter, and see if they conform to the characteristics I described.
Matt believe you are correct factory radio plug. The inline fuse holder (white 1/2 part hanging out the bottom) I bet was a PO installed item. DAMN PO (Previous Owners). Did it get into any other wire bundles?
I don't think it got any other wires fortuntly I was sitting in the cab working on some other stuff not driving and was able to kill power fast
and thanks for that image that will help me with some other minor issues
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