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Title: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: 4x4ZUKI on March 25, 2008, 08:05:43 AM

Guages all work but there are no dash lights. I checked the fuse and it is good.

Could it be the dimmer switch?

Any suggestions?

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: mic on March 25, 2008, 10:17:19 AM

Check the bulb, it could be blown. And yes it could be the dimmer switch.

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: ROSS on March 25, 2008, 12:50:41 PM

most likely dimmer.  check it out with meter and see if it has power

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: lostsamurai on March 25, 2008, 03:21:52 PM

SET FIRE TO IT!


jus kiddin, cut the wires and bypass the dimmer if it works  replace it.

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: phloop on March 25, 2008, 06:33:51 PM

Got a MagLight? :laugh:

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: Carnage on March 25, 2008, 07:20:56 PM

Quote from: phloop on March 25, 2008, 06:33:51 PM

Got a MagLight? :laugh:

darn, beat me to that one

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: big_kountry21 on March 25, 2008, 07:51:32 PM

mine f-ed up and i got a new dimmer .... didn't fix it so i hooked up the lights to a toggle. redneck i know. but it works.

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: beercheck on March 26, 2008, 07:17:27 AM

You've still got tail lights, right?  Pretty common for the "instruments" fuse to just run the gauges, but the tail light fuse to run the tail lights AND dash lights.  I can't recall when they started that, but I know it was so by the mid-80s.
 
On my '03 (actually '02 electrics, though), my dash lights kept going out randomly, due to the taillamp fuse blowing randomly.  Turned out my trailer wiring harness was drooping behind the bumper and occasionally coming into contact with the exhaust pipe, with its insulation already melted through.

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: cskarnes on March 27, 2008, 04:58:04 PM

My bet would be dimmer switch. Pulled mine from the panel, tapped it and it worked, went over a bump and it went out. Replacement is in the mail.

Title: Re: No dash lights on '88 Sammy- any suggestions?
Post by: pepatt on March 27, 2008, 06:10:09 PM

Quote from: cskarnes on March 27, 2008, 04:58:04 PM

...tapped it and it worked, went over a bump and it went out

I'd just tap it again.
Or drive smoother roads ;D