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I had a hot wire for my driving lights come loose in my 1987 Ford Ranger, and now I don't have any gauge lights. I pulled every fuse under the steering wheel, and can't find a blown one. What do I need to look for next? Any suggestions you have would be great, thanks.
First off, if you have a ohmeter, it will really help. place the red lead in the fuse box, at the places that you pull the fuses in the fuse box, any good ohmmeter will have leads that can connect up to the fuse box. As you pull fuses put the red lead into them, then place the black lead at a constant ground. As you connect it up to the lead to the different area watch the ohmmeter, when you get an excessive reading or read OL (out of limits) you have located the circuit with the problem. Most likely what happened was when the wire came loose it either bypassed the fuse and destroyed your gauge panel lights, or at the same time the wire came loose the ground came loos on whatever circuit it was that lights your guage lights, first, check all the grounds that the circuit with the problem has, then check back through the wires to make sure that nothing was fryed or blown after the fuse. It proabably wasn''t a short if no fuses were blown, but it could be bad wiring, or it could be a bad ground.
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