Originally Posted by Flxible
had to look at the wiring diagram again - that fuse is for dash and tail lites, powered from the ignition sw so that those lites work any time they're turned on [ign on or off] .... things could be wired differently, but .... why? having had lots of these trucks, I've never run across a problem with that fuse, or one burned out

Bill

I guess the reason why is that the fuse block already protects the light circuit with a circuit breaker, so I don't need an additional circuit breaker in the light switch (just an additional part to fail) and the dash and tail is also protected by fused circuit in fuse block (so again, just additional part to fail). Not that these are necessarily bad, I'm just trying to reduce redundancy in the wiring harness and if I can accomplish this through a switch that will mount the original hardward (you know aesthetics are everything) then I'm up for that.

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