no electrics

[gaunt1969]

Went to start the truck to go to work today, waitlight comes on and goes out, turn the key and nothing, turned key back and tryed to start and no wait or anything, no lights, horn, turn, signals no nothing, checked all every fuse in block, none bad. Just no power, any ideas?

 

[Ken_86gt]

is the battery dead?

 

[gaunt1969]

nope that was the first thing I checked, I just parked it about 30 min befor I went back out to start it to go to work.

 

[Ken_86gt]

There are also fusible links that could have blown. They are harder to test, but I think you need to find them and test. Look in the Wiring diagrams in the -20, page F-1 shows the starting circuit and the fusible link.

 

[gaunt1969]

not makeing any headway, the tm sux on this . has anyone else had this problem

 

[mistaken1]

Do you have power in the fuse block?

 

[gaunt1969]

To wich fuse? To the one labled ingniton, no but if I am reading the tm corect it gets it's voltage from the switch. And the 2 red wires that I think feed the switch do have 12v at the collum.

 

[Blood_of_Tyrants]

Check grounds and power connections to the distribution block in the engine compartment.

 

[gaunt1969]

Vfyd 12v across the block and across all the fuseable links. And the grounds check out also

 

[Blood_of_Tyrants]

No, check for tightness and corrosion. You can still measure voltage with a multimeter on a loose connection.

 

[gaunt1969]

Did that I even load tested with a 10 ohn 100w resister 100% shure I have voltage getting to the switch

 

[Blood_of_Tyrants]

Get the schematic out of the TM and start tracing connections and wires.

 

[gaunt1969]

fixed;
bad switch

 

[Warthog]

fixed;
bad switch

Which one? The ignition switch on top of the steering column?

 

[gaunt1969]

ignition