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Old Oct 11, 2015 | 08:30 PM
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OK step by step.....My glovebox wouldn't open. I had to pry it open. it was the catch was broken. Plastic...go figure...
Ok the glovebox light was staying on . So I figured to pull the bulb so the Battery want go dead. In doing so I broke the part that holds the buld...Plastic again....
That night I noticed the interior lights are not working at all. No map lights or floorboards are coming on. Could it be where I was messing with the glovebox light. I have checked the Fusses and do not find a blown one anywhere.
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Old Oct 11, 2015 | 08:42 PM
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What year is your truck? It could be a fuse.
 
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Old Oct 12, 2015 | 10:05 PM
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97 but I have not found any fuses blown..
 
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Old Oct 12, 2015 | 10:18 PM
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Unfortunately I don't have a wiring diagram for a '97 but in later years there is one fuse for the interior lights, including the glove box.

Did you check the junction box on the side of the dash?
 
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Old Oct 12, 2015 | 11:17 PM
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A 97 may also have the Ignition Off Draw fuse, which if I remember it right is in the Power Distribution Center fuse box under the hood. If the IOD fuse is blown it can also take out the dome lamps too.

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Old Oct 13, 2015 | 07:00 PM
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Cant remember about the dakotas but In my ram lost my interior lights and a few other things that was run by the iod fuse mine was covered by a yellow cap in the fusebox that you have to take off to pull the fuse
 
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