Hello, this is one of the times that if I can get my wiring fixed because someone actually online can help that would just be another reason the internet kicks ***.
I'm about to flip out not being able to fix a problem. I bought my first Ford ever yesterday (2000 F150 XLT 4x4). It came with a six pin plug hook up for trailers. My daily work trailer is a four pin horizontal hook up so I wanted to either find an adapter or splice in the proper hook up. While trying to figure out which wires did what on the stock round 6pin hook up the only hot wire was tailights.......no stop Lturn or Rturn signals. I followed from the 6pins up to where it had been spliced to the main wires that ran to both sides of the back lights. I followed that until I found a connection were I was able to unplug it and test from that connection......I found power to LT and RT and stop.......but completely lost tailights on my truck...I checked the fuse chart in the manual and for the life of me I can tell what fuse it should be. I does say anything like (parking lights, running lights,) So I unpluged and visually inspected every fuse there was. So now I can't drive at night cause I got no tailights. I was able to splice in the trailer lights to RT, LT and stop. Just enought to be able to drive and work in daylight hours. But I lost tailights and now the dash illumination..........I'm freakin...............can the wires at the back of the truck affect the illumination on the dash.......starting to miss my Chevy. HELP.

 

sounds like you may have opened the tail light ckt at the 2nd connector. You should have seen a spark back there if you blew a fuse. Check it again and make sure no wires were pulled out and that is is goood and tight. I recommend the adapter plug that fits in you 6 pin female trailoer light plugin and has the standard small rectangle trlr plug for 4 or 5 wires trlrs on the othere end. You can get them usually at walmart and most uhaul places sell them for abt 10 dollars.

 

Moved to ELECTRICAL....

 

Just to be sure does the connector have 6 or 7 terminals? This is important to know because the truck came from the factory with a 4 or a 7 pin connector. If you realy have a 6 pin then this is something that the previous owner installed and it could be a major PITA figuring out what he did. Do you have a flair side or a style side?

JMC

 

One more question, does your ashtray, steering column lights or window switch light up at all? If not the fuse hase blown. Most likely because of the connector in the back. Check fuse #18 (5 Amp) in the Central Junction Box under the dash.

JMC

 

matuka,

Did you check the fuses under the hood, some people forget about these.