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I just got my F-450 about a week ago and here is what happened yesterday...
On the way back from a little fishing at the local lake, and headed home after dark and every light except the head lights went OUT running down the highway..!! Well on Sat I remembered on the way to Sonic for some lunch with the family, I stopped and grabbed a few fuses and stuck two in, a 10 and a 25 right where they were burnt and everything started working...whaaalllaaa fixed I though.. OH NO! After setting at Sonic about 10 min with the AC kickin.. I start smelling burning wire and a puff of smoke comes out from under the dash!!!!!!! UH OHHH I thought.. I had the cover off and the top off the fuse box like a NASCAR pit crew!!! After some tracing and realizing the top cab clearance lights are on, along with the dash lights and radio...and the key if off and out??? I started looking at the lights under the flat bed.... let me put this nicely, I would love to punch they guy in the nose that did the wiring or a sad attempt at wiring the flat bed and lights in the headache rack.. There were several places the wire coating was paper thin, and there was a place in the headache rack where the wires were BURNT...not a little hot..they were BURNT about 4"!! Come to find out, there is a couple wires on the back of the fuse box that decied to mate with a few wires nest to them.... All of this from a bad wiring job.. Which can happen on a trailer or a flat bed.. I just wanted to pass the info on and maybe keep someone else from having the same problem.. I may just pull the dash out so I can be 100% sure the rest of the harness is OK... I am just glad I can fix it all myself...I have already put the good insulated trailer wiring on the bed.. I would hate to see the bill if I took it to the Dealer!!
On the way back from a little fishing at the local lake, and headed home after dark and every light except the head lights went OUT running down the highway..!! Well on Sat I remembered on the way to Sonic for some lunch with the family, I stopped and grabbed a few fuses and stuck two in, a 10 and a 25 right where they were burnt and everything started working...whaaalllaaa fixed I though.. OH NO! After setting at Sonic about 10 min with the AC kickin.. I start smelling burning wire and a puff of smoke comes out from under the dash!!!!!!! UH OHHH I thought.. I had the cover off and the top off the fuse box like a NASCAR pit crew!!! After some tracing and realizing the top cab clearance lights are on, along with the dash lights and radio...and the key if off and out??? I started looking at the lights under the flat bed.... let me put this nicely, I would love to punch they guy in the nose that did the wiring or a sad attempt at wiring the flat bed and lights in the headache rack.. There were several places the wire coating was paper thin, and there was a place in the headache rack where the wires were BURNT...not a little hot..they were BURNT about 4"!! Come to find out, there is a couple wires on the back of the fuse box that decied to mate with a few wires nest to them.... All of this from a bad wiring job.. Which can happen on a trailer or a flat bed.. I just wanted to pass the info on and maybe keep someone else from having the same problem.. I may just pull the dash out so I can be 100% sure the rest of the harness is OK... I am just glad I can fix it all myself...I have already put the good insulated trailer wiring on the bed.. I would hate to see the bill if I took it to the Dealer!!
