Dash Lights are gone

[Anonymous]

We put a radio in my bu yesterday, and now my lights dont work inside. Any ideas?

 

[83StreetMachine]

no lights!

Hey!

Check your fuses...sounds like something grounded when you were installing the radio.

~Ed

 

[Anonymous]

Fuse is fine, even replaced it with a new one, still nothing, i pulled the radio out as well and no luck.

 

[Doober]

I'd check all the 20a & smaller fuses to be sure, also check for any exposed bare wire.

 

[Anonymous]

all fuses good, and no wire exposed. grrrr.............

 

[Z-man]

I'd pull the gauge cluster and see if you have power at the connector, if so printed circuit may be burned or ??? do you still have lights at the A/C heater controls? If you do I'd say printed circuit. Aren't electrical gremlins fun?!

 

[Anonymous]

Well the a/c control lights are gone as well!!!

 

[Z-man]

well i guess I would grab a couple of beers and start tracing wires back to the fuse block you gota have a busted/fried wire . Good luck

 

[78_Elky]

I'd check to see that the light switch on the dash is working right. maybe that happend to burn out, or not ground or maybe got unplugged, jsut another thing to check while you drink your beers. Good luck!
-Josh

 

[Anonymous]

Are we talking about the instrument panel lights? If so I had the same problem last week. I replaced the fuse 5 amp fuse for the instrument panel, and it did not fix the problem. The next thing I changed was the headlight switch. In my case it called for 2 different switches (7 prong and 8 prong unit). I changed this and replaced the 5 amp fuse again and the problem was solved.

Switch cost new approximently $20.