Interior lights, gauges, radio don't work

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98xjjeeper

NAXJA Forum User

Location

nc

• Jun 17, 2010

• #1

I put a new hood on and instead of keeping the under hood light i just cut it off. When i did, my gauges, interior lights, and radio stopped working. I checked both fuse panels and all the fuses are fine. all i can think of is that a wire burned before a fuse blew from shorting out when i cut the hoodlight wires. what else could it be? Its on a 98'

 

Last edited: Jun 17, 2010

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98xjjeeper

NAXJA Forum User

Location

nc

• Jun 17, 2010

• #2

Please help i have trip to go on tomorrow!!

 

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98xjjeeper

NAXJA Forum User

Location

nc

• Jun 17, 2010

• #3

Figured it out!

 

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Mugless

NAXJA Forum User

Location

SoCal

• Jun 18, 2010

• #4

When you have time, post the solution. thx
Was a circuit cut?

 

Begster

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Cape Cod/Boston, Mass

• Jun 18, 2010

• #5

There is a fuse in the PDC (under hood fuse box) that will cause the gauges, radio and interior lights to go off when it blows. I take it the OP found this blown fuse.

 

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98xjjeeper

NAXJA Forum User

Location

nc

• Jun 18, 2010

• #6

Begster said:

There is a fuse in the PDC (under hood fuse box) that will cause the gauges, radio and interior lights to go off when it blows. I take it the OP found this blown fuse.

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Yeah the weird thing is i used a volt meter set on testing mode to check for a complete circuit on all the fuses and all were ok. It wasn't until i pulled it out and looked closer that i saw it was blown. I felt like a idoit becuase it took me 4 hours tearing my jeep apart to find this out haha.

 

snail

NAXJA Forum User

Location

North Jersey

• Jun 18, 2010

• #7

Yup same exact thing happened to me a few days ago from the underhood light also. For any future readers, the fuse that is affected is #16 fuse 15amp in the PDC which is the IOD (ignition-off draw).

its the fuse just above the "O" in "FOG 2"