New guy needs rear lighting help
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New guy needs rear lighting help
I just purchsed a 68 F100 last weekend
Yesterday my rear lights,turn signals and brake lights stopped working. I also lost the wipers.
Looks like the wipers and turn signals are on the same fuse (from what I looked up online) which I changed and the wipers worked for about 10 seconds and the new fuse blew again. The turn signals also worked for those 10 seconds but only on the front of the truck, rear was still nothing.
Wondering why I blew anonther fuse right away and why I have zero lighting on the rear of the truck.
Thanks for any advice you guys can give me.
Yesterday my rear lights,turn signals and brake lights stopped working. I also lost the wipers.
Looks like the wipers and turn signals are on the same fuse (from what I looked up online) which I changed and the wipers worked for about 10 seconds and the new fuse blew again. The turn signals also worked for those 10 seconds but only on the front of the truck, rear was still nothing.
Wondering why I blew anonther fuse right away and why I have zero lighting on the rear of the truck.
Thanks for any advice you guys can give me.
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Short! I think I'd start looking around the dash for a wire with a skinned place touching metal. If you hadn't thrown the wipers in I'd have said start behind the rear bumper.
3 wires run the rear lights. 1 for tail & license plate, 1 each for turns and brakes.
If you have backups there will be 4.
hope that gives you a place to start.
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John
3 wires run the rear lights. 1 for tail & license plate, 1 each for turns and brakes.
If you have backups there will be 4.
hope that gives you a place to start.
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Check inside the column. Had a brake light problem and somebody had been in there messing with wires. It was a mess. I know the brake, turn, and parking lights all run through the blinker switch in the column. It very well could be shorting in the column. You will have to pull the steering wheel.
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