Chasing electrical ghosts???
More Turbo
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From: King and Queen Virginia
WoW That is a hacked up mess under there.
Have a look at post 9 in this thread it will help show the wiring for your courtesy lamp light switches and the cargo light.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ingle-cab.html
Have a look at post 9 in this thread it will help show the wiring for your courtesy lamp light switches and the cargo light.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ingle-cab.html
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Mountain Pass
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WoW That is a hacked up mess under there.
Have a look at post 9 in this thread it will help show the wiring for your courtesy lamp light switches and the cargo light.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ingle-cab.html
Have a look at post 9 in this thread it will help show the wiring for your courtesy lamp light switches and the cargo light.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ingle-cab.html
You're telling me! You shoulda seen it when the tow truck arrived with my truck to the shop, from the impound yard! It was WORSE than that!
Such a freaking mess...TY For the diagram.
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Mountain Pass
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OK. This is difficult to accept, but electrical is only as hard as you make it. Bake a cake? Ingredients, measurements, assembly, containers, tools, temperature... yada-yada-yada... Cake.
If you break things down to their components & build the parts, sections, etc. you make a system work.
This gen truck fortunately is not "integrated" like a current vehicles are. The systems are "free standing" for the most part & not dependent on something else to work.
You need to acquire a service disc like this, they will have wiring diagrams that allow you to "read" the wiring & be able to tell what circuits do what & what are powered by what fuses & relays.
Others can link different ones.
Most of us here can look under the dash & tell what actually came from Ford & what has been added. It comes pretty quick.
If it were mine, I'd pull the front seats out, lie on my back & start surgically removing all that crap that ain't Ford.
You'll kill something for sure, but you can figure out what it should be & put it back right with the right information.
If you break things down to their components & build the parts, sections, etc. you make a system work.
This gen truck fortunately is not "integrated" like a current vehicles are. The systems are "free standing" for the most part & not dependent on something else to work.
You need to acquire a service disc like this, they will have wiring diagrams that allow you to "read" the wiring & be able to tell what circuits do what & what are powered by what fuses & relays.
Others can link different ones.
Most of us here can look under the dash & tell what actually came from Ford & what has been added. It comes pretty quick.
If it were mine, I'd pull the front seats out, lie on my back & start surgically removing all that crap that ain't Ford.
You'll kill something for sure, but you can figure out what it should be & put it back right with the right information.
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Mountain Pass
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OK. This is difficult to accept, but electrical is only as hard as you make it. Bake a cake? Ingredients, measurements, assembly, containers, tools, temperature... yada-yada-yada... Cake.
If you break things down to their components & build the parts, sections, etc. you make a system work.
This gen truck fortunately is not "integrated" like a current vehicles are. The systems are "free standing" for the most part & not dependent on something else to work.
You need to acquire a service disc like this, they will have wiring diagrams that allow you to "read" the wiring & be able to tell what circuits do what & what are powered by what fuses & relays.
https://www.amazon.com/Repair-Servic.../dp/B00Q6RRK0E
Others can link different ones.
Most of us here can look under the dash & tell what actually came from Ford & what has been added. It comes pretty quick.
If it were mine, I'd pull the front seats out, lie on my back & start surgically removing all that crap that ain't Ford.
You'll kill something for sure, but you can figure out what it should be & put it back right with the right information.
If you break things down to their components & build the parts, sections, etc. you make a system work.
This gen truck fortunately is not "integrated" like a current vehicles are. The systems are "free standing" for the most part & not dependent on something else to work.
You need to acquire a service disc like this, they will have wiring diagrams that allow you to "read" the wiring & be able to tell what circuits do what & what are powered by what fuses & relays.
https://www.amazon.com/Repair-Servic.../dp/B00Q6RRK0E
Others can link different ones.
Most of us here can look under the dash & tell what actually came from Ford & what has been added. It comes pretty quick.
If it were mine, I'd pull the front seats out, lie on my back & start surgically removing all that crap that ain't Ford.
You'll kill something for sure, but you can figure out what it should be & put it back right with the right information.
TY for the link. I will buy this and look at it. It's just when I see wires, all I see is gobbldy gook...I don't know why. At one point just recently as this past Friday, when I started having the alarm issues, I had seriously thought about throwing in the towel and just selling the truck for what I could get out of it...she won't ever be the same as she was before she was stolen. I still feel that way today...
More Turbo
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From: King and Queen Virginia
Well in your pictures I see 2 white connectors just hanging they do not look factory to me. Also using painters tape to hold wires is poor workmanship. I see a few wires just hanging that are not connected. They should be traced back to see what they were for and removed if they not being used for anything.
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Mountain Pass
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Yeah, I noticed that as well. The shop I had repair my truck apparently didn't do a good enough job in cleaning things up...and I paid them a lot of money to get it running again...When I get some free time this weekend, I will see about trying to trace the wires that are just hanging. I have no clue what any of them are for. I do know my factory stereo WAS working before it was stolen...and now, nothing. the clock doesn't even keep accurate time. It's all such a mess that I just don't know it's worth fighting with this crap to keep the truck...I have struggled with deciding whether or not it's even worth keeping anymore.
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If you don't love it, send it on.
There's literally nothing that can't be fixed or replaced.
But if you can't see the end of the journey & imagine the results & satisfaction... it's not worth it.
Leave it alone for a while & come back at it.
Then decide. Good luck.
There's literally nothing that can't be fixed or replaced.
But if you can't see the end of the journey & imagine the results & satisfaction... it's not worth it.
Leave it alone for a while & come back at it.
Then decide. Good luck.
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Mountain Pass
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Problem is, I DO love it. This truck replaced my '12 SD F250 6.7l diesel Lariat my ex fiance stole from me after I left him due to domestic violence. That truck was my baby. He destroyed it. I spent 1.5 yrs in court trying to get my and my son's property back...to no avail. I ended up conducting a civil standby and When I got it back Nov 22nd last yr, he had let the rear end go dry...destroyed the rear diff. It also reeked of cigarette smoke. He ruined it. I didn't have the money to fix it. So, I sold it. Used some of the money from the sale of my diesel to buy this truck...and all was well, until it got stolen. I still feel violated because someone took what wasn't theirs to begin with and ruined this one too.
Nearly everyone I have spoken to has said to sell it. It's not worth dumping more money into it...I am torn. Ppl said why are you emotionally attached to a vehicle....well, I tell them my story about why. They still say it isn't worth fixing. And I am starting to believe them. I have to take a break from it or I am gonna do something I am gonna regret...selling it. I KNOW if I sell, I WILL regret it.
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It's a common theme here. Get rid of something & regret it from then on.
Only thing you can do is learn to look at your situation different & as some would say, "get on the stick" to do the work necessary.
Only thing you can do is learn to look at your situation different & as some would say, "get on the stick" to do the work necessary.
i ain't rite
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
did your truck have a security system or remote start/entry system on it before theft that is now disabled?
the two 8 pin and 12 pin plugs look like they are for a remote entry and start/security system.
the two 8 pin and 12 pin plugs look like they are for a remote entry and start/security system.
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Mountain Pass
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I was never given any key fobs...nothing. just the 2 sets of keys that the dealer had. I have no idea if it has an aftermarket alarm or not. Gonna need to have these wires gone through...I was wondering the same thing cuz of the plugs just hanging...
