Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you guys ever had a problem like this, my fuse for the gauge lights keep going out, and even when I try to put a new fuse in, it blows out before I even try to stick it in. I checked behind the dash, I changed the ignition and still nothing. Any help would be appreciated!
Everything works, turn signals, emergencies headlights, exterior lights, just the gauges are the bad ones
if you have a dash mounted dimmer switch for the gauge cluster check the dimmer switch and its housing for corrosion and condensation, there are tabs or something on the side of the switches you can pop the box out and pop out the individual switches to inspect/clean/replace
Is it your gauge lights? Or your actual gauges not working? You probably have a wire rubbed thru, grounding out on a piece of metal behind the dash
You have a short-circuit. If you put in a big enough fuse to not blow you will be buying a new wiring harness or truck after the fire dept is finished with their work. The short-circuit could be caused by an almost broken wire, a pinched wire, a screw driving into wires somewhere.
Look for brittle or broken wires, melted plug at switches. Might get lucky and find something. Dome lights shorting out and causing fires was a problem on early 90’s Pete’s.
