Taillights?

[83ford]

We're trying to fix my taillight sand cannot figure out why they won't work.the guy that had it it before us had a wire runnin from the trailer light plug down to the taillight wire.weve tested everything and can't figure it out.and we can't figure out why my radio stays on constantly even with the key on.any suggestions


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[franklin2]

Do the brake lights work?

Do the turnsignals work?

Do the license plate lights work?

Do the front orange marker lights work?

 

[83ford]

Yup every thing works.we finally got um working we just wired um in to somethin else.i don't remmeber what now thought.


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[83ford]

We wired them into the trailer lights.well now there not workin agian.no blown fuses nothin.every thing else works fine atill


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[franklin2]

The reason I made a list of "what is working?" is to figure out what your problem is. Taillights mean to me the lights that light up when the headlight switch is pulled. This puts power on the brown wire that feeds all those smaller lights all over the whole truck. You said everything else is working. I take that to mean the rear license plate lights work. They are also fed by the same brown wire as the taillights. A single brown wire runs to the rear, hits a splice, and goes to each side and also down to the license plate lights. If the license plate lights are working like you said, just splice into that wire of you can't find the problem back there.

 

[83ford]

I'll double check um.they not be but the trailer lights were working and now there not.no blown fuses or anything


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[83ford]

No the license plate lights arnt working now.every thing else work besides tail lights and trailer lights.dad was pullin on the headlight plug up on the fire wall and the speakers were popping.could that cause it.


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[79jasper]

Could have a lot to do with it.


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[83ford]

Well the radio works with the key off and out.the wipers do to.and the tail lights an license plate lights don't work at all.so there's somethin wrong in the wiring

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[79jasper]

Separate the plug where it goes through the firewall.
See how it looks.


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[83ford]

Alright we will tommorrow.i guess when we spliced into the trailer lights it shorted somethin out.


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[83ford]

We got it fixed now.the wires were bare and on the frame so it shorted it but we got it fixed


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[Knuckledragger]

There was an old Ford trick: to listen to the radio in a car without a key, you step on the brakes and the radio magically works. Brakes + Radio wiring all use the same source.