Posted By: gmcfan
The day nothing worked: a tale of turnsignals and brakelights - Thu Nov 29 2001 02:55 AM
So, here I am trying to get EVERY singe electrical thing to work in my truck, and I have succeeded. Except for my turn signals and brakelights. Heres the story: In the past, I have been having problems with the turnsignals and brake lights getting along together. When you press on the brakes, one front turnsignal comes on steady. when you turn on either turn signals, niether rear one works. When you turn on the running lights, the rear lights work, but no turn signals. Now the front ones: When you turn on one turn signal, the right one comes on too, but is really weak. If you unhook the wire for the front running lights, they work fine. Here is the question: could it be I wired something wrong? or could it be that there is something wrong with the turn signal switch? i recently pulled the whole wiring harness out of the dash, took all of the tape off, and traced every wire. Nothing out of place. What the hell is wrong with this? I am just about fed up with the whole thing. Here is a picture of the fuse block. I re did some wiring to incorperate a radio, and re-did the turnsignal setup, because someone in the past had wired it directly without a fuse.
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The Radio and Brake LP(4.) fuse holders were broken, so I re-routed through it and used an inline fuse. The turn signal fuse holder was also broken, so I re-routed and intalled an inline fuse. The gray Dotted lines show where the wires were origionally. I have no Idea what the arrows are pointing too, maybe you guys have an Idea. The panel Lts. fuse(2.) didnt have any wires hooked up to it, so I assume they were connected behind the fuse block. The flasher for the turn signals was gone, so me and my dad patched a flasher into the turn signal fuse holder(6.). I routed the memory wire for the radio into the brakelights to provide constant current to the radios memory. I dont know if any of this screwed up the flasher and the brake lights or not. What do you guys think?
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The Radio and Brake LP(4.) fuse holders were broken, so I re-routed through it and used an inline fuse. The turn signal fuse holder was also broken, so I re-routed and intalled an inline fuse. The gray Dotted lines show where the wires were origionally. I have no Idea what the arrows are pointing too, maybe you guys have an Idea. The panel Lts. fuse(2.) didnt have any wires hooked up to it, so I assume they were connected behind the fuse block. The flasher for the turn signals was gone, so me and my dad patched a flasher into the turn signal fuse holder(6.). I routed the memory wire for the radio into the brakelights to provide constant current to the radios memory. I dont know if any of this screwed up the flasher and the brake lights or not. What do you guys think?
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