Author Topic: Bad headlight switch make dash lites go off?  (Read 2133 times)

Offline Harmon

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Bad headlight switch make dash lites go off?
« on: June 10, 2013, 06:16:21 PM »
86 truck...no dash lights or blinkers.  Headlights work but when I go to brights the brights lite in dash lites up....it's the only lite that works.  Any ideas?

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Re: Bad headlight switch make dash lites go off?
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2013, 06:52:24 PM »
The symptoms you describe indicate a bad printed circuit on back of the instrument cluster.
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Re: Bad headlight switch make dash lites go off?
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2013, 12:02:59 AM »
do any of your dash lights work?
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