Tail Lights Not Working....Suggestions

powerstrokedkid87

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ok guys need some help on this one....

White salvage finally hit the road last night....prior to doing any work on the truck, all the lights worked perfect.

pulled bed ect...put everything back, including the 2012 bed, but i reused the harness from the original 06 bed, as well as pulled the tail lights from my red 06 to put in the white truck. Plug everything in, but the tail lights, reverse lights, blinker, and license place lights wont work.

Try the hazards, and the tail lights go on but stay solid, and the license plate lights go on, and when the truck is put in reverse the reverse lights go on. But still no brakes or blikers.

shut hazards off...lights all go off

Also blinkers in the front dont work either.

fuses all look to be fine, bulbs all are find.....suggestions?
 

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Sounds like you have a bad ground. I believe the lights ground through the bed to the frame if you just had the bed off you may have a poor ground now. You can try to clean a spot on the bed and a spot on the frame and putting a jumper between them and see if they work normal. Then either clean a spot where the bed and frame touch or just leave a jumper on it. I had the same problem after I painted the frame and bed on a truck a few years ago.
 

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yea frame was just painted....sounds like that may be the issue on my other truck also...thanks i will have to try that. Where did you put a jumper?
 

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From the rear crossmember of the bed to the drivers frame rail. I ground a small spot on each and then everything worked.
 

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