Last night I dropped a dirty tank at the tank wash in Avondale, AZ. When I unhooked and walked around to thump the tires and make sure everything looked ok, I noticed the passenger side turn signals weren’t flashing in either position. (side arrow and rear) I did have signals on the tractor itself, though.
My next assignment had me bobtailing a few hundred miles away to pickup a preloaded tank that delivers in Florida. I could tell by the tank number on the Qualcomm that it was a fairly new one. So, I decided to wait and see if they would flash on that one when I got there before sending an email to breakdown about the dropped tank. I had a suspicion it was tractor-related. Come to find out, it was. When I hooked up to the newer one, I had no signal on the passenger side in either position.
If anyone else encounters this on a 579 like mine, the fuse location is under the hood. It’s a 20 AMP Mini Fuse and will be marked as “J4” in the fuse box. On the diagram it is marked “J4 20A SCM F7.”
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Yes it’s very easy to replace a fuse. What I would recommend you do when you go home is get something like this
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I highly recommend carrying an extra Mega Fuse, too. These are mounted inside the battery box. When you lose one, you’re completely finished, anytime, anywhere, crossing a set of railroad tracks, pulling across two lanes of traffic to make a left turn onto a 4-lane highway, or anywhere else. The entire truck will go off the grid when this pops.
I had it happen at the Loves in Prosser, WA a few years ago. Fortunately, I was safely in the parking lot. They didn’t sell them in the store or inside the service shop. I ended up walking a half mile or so to O’Reilly Auto Parts to buy one. My power inverter had beeped when I was making coffee. So, I got out to tighten the battery terminal nuts since they had a tendency to loosen up in my previous truck. When I was inside the box, I had the bad idea to reach up and snug the nuts on the Mega Fuse while I was at it. That was a bad move and caused it to blow. On the bright side, I learned how serious it can be when these go bad. I bought three of them that day and keep them with my other spares.Friend, Rugerfan, nextgentrucker and 3 others Thank this. -
Of course; why would they waste space on something a truck driver would actually need? Medieval armor and die-cast cars are way more useful.
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