Help electrical issue!

[chasee69]

2 days ago i installed a new set of gauges. i followed the instructions from the internet step by step and everything seems to work great. heres the weird part.

1. when i start my truck it takes a good 5 seconds for the radio to power on or for the power windows to be able to work. both of these use to be instantaneous.

2. my windshield wipers no longer turn on at all. the fluid wont even squirt out.

3. i also had a right rear turn signal burn out on me but with a new bulb that is fixed.

any suggestions on where to start?
does anyone have a fuse diagram i can see online. i dont have my owners manual?

[symbols]

so all of this happened after the gauge install?

[chasee69]

Originally Posted by symbols

so all of this happened after the gauge install?

yep. any suggestions?

[symbols]

Do you have all of the wires going to the same places. For instance....all the power wires going to a specific location or are some here and some there?

[chasee69]

Originally Posted by symbols

Do you have all of the wires going to the same places. For instance....all the power wires going to a specific location or are some here and some there?

i have them going to 2 seperate places as instructed.


i have the lights in the gauge spliced spliced into the dimmer switch for the truck.

and then i have the actual power for the gauges going to the fuse box where i used the "add a circuit" kit.

[symbols]

I'm not sure what the "add a circuit" doohickie is but here is what I would do. If this is easy to do I would take the ground off of each one, one by one (assuming all grounds are at the same location). See if the problem continues after disconnecting the wires for each one. If you still have the problem after trying all of them let me know and tell me what the circuit thing is. If it goes away after disconnecting one of them then physically trace all of the wires for that gauge and see if you can see something going on.

[chasee69]

this is the add a circuit thing



i got the wipers working. i took the add a circuit kit out. put a single fuse into the location (which i found out was for the wipers and instrument cluster from looking at the owners manual at motorcraft.com) and the wipers worked. i then replugged the add a circuit kit and everything works! im not sure what the problem was but everything works now. i hope it doesnt come back

[symbols]

Oh..... well that WAS your problem. You were overloading that circuit. The proper way to do it would be to get a separate fuse block and run a power wire to it from the battery. The twighlight zonce sells them for about $10. Tieing into things is never a good idea.