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Old Feb 20, 2009 | 02:04 PM
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Electrical Gremlins and questions

I am trying to track down an electrical gremlin with my tail lights, everything in the lights area is all good. There is a break in the power line leading back to the lights right under the box of the truck. I am not registering any power at the break. I noticed that when i striped one of the brown power lines at the lights the copper wires were blackened. When I cut the line you can see normal copper but the wires are still black on the outside.

Is this wire fried??

Do I need to replace the whole line?
 
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Old Feb 20, 2009 | 02:32 PM
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Sounds just like old age to me. If you can find the break I would just splice it, however if there is more than one fault it is sometimes quicker just to run a new wire. Good luck with it.
 
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