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04-28-2024, 06:09 PM | #1 |
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Dash stops working when I turn on lights
Any ideas before is start taking this thing apart? Dash lights don't work and fuel guage goes to empty when I turn on the headlights. The other guages don't work anyway and speedo is mechanical so it obviously works. Turn signals also stop working. This truck my wife and her dad built like 20 years ago, it doesn't get driven much and never at night. Except for a couple days ago lol
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04-28-2024, 06:30 PM | #2 | |
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Re: Dash stops working when I turn on lights
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04-28-2024, 07:20 PM | #3 |
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Re: Dash stops working when I turn on lights
Follow these steps.
1. Check all the grounds 2. Check all the grounds again.
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04-28-2024, 09:05 PM | #4 |
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Re: Dash stops working when I turn on lights
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04-28-2024, 09:24 PM | #5 |
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Re: Dash stops working when I turn on lights
Check out the Ground clip on the dash in this link.
post #3 Link: https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...sh+ground+clip Hope this Helps.
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04-28-2024, 10:35 PM | #6 |
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Re: Dash stops working when I turn on lights
In addition to checking all the power and ground connections, the rheostat may be bad or dirty on the headlight switch.
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Yesterday, 10:21 AM | #7 |
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Re: Dash stops working when I turn on lights
thanks everyone, grounds were my first thought as well
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