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Old 07-02-2012, 10:46 AM
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I knew it will come down to this, I really suck at that but I will give it another try.
 
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Old 07-02-2012, 12:34 PM
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No power at headlight socket and no power at fog light socket to. I checked the connector of the fog light harness and there is no power there either.
 
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Old 07-02-2012, 01:56 PM
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if you have a sport model, how many wires does each of the sockets have? I would think they should only have two each, one high beam power and one ground. one low beam and ground on the other socket, you do have two sockets for each side right?
 
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Old 07-02-2012, 02:07 PM
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Yes, two sockets on each side, three pins per sockets.

Fogs are two pins.
 
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Old 07-08-2012, 11:25 AM
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No progress but I will strip and inspect all the different harness next week.
 
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Old 08-31-2012, 12:20 PM
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damn, just realized that I have 3 threads on this lights trouble shooting.

Working on it right now, bad ground to the inner sockets and outer ones doesn't read 0 on the ohm scale. Where is the headlight ground at?? I think I read once that it's grounded at the main switch, can I just splice and bypass this at the sockets?

Little help please, I want to get this working.
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Extra grounds are always a good idea. I would recommend a chassis ground up front that you can split four ways. Two to each side to act as ground for the headlight and foglight per side.

As long as you have switched power for low, highs, and fogs, the grounds should at least get the lights back on until you can solve the real issue.
 
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Old 08-31-2012, 12:58 PM
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ok thanks for the quick reply.

I have power to all light bulbs and fog lights, just no ground. I have power in both wires at the split for the fog light harness, doesn't make sense to me. I attempted to test the light/fog switch on fog switch doesn't seem to work. I will try a new ground and see what happens, I will probably install another fog light switch separatly.
 
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Q Is your truck a Sport or did someone just add the Sport headlights to it.
 
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it's a factory sport model
 


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