Dash light wont come on

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natethecarlover

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1985
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I have indicators and warnings but no backlight. I checked the fuse on the box which was fine, i changed the headlight switch which was fine too but there was no power reaching the backlight pin on the switch. Any ideas as to what is wrong?

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PaPitt

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i'D SAY iT's most likely the printer circuit on the back of the cluster... If I'm wrong Guys on here will most likely let me know .. I just got another cluster & Put in my truck.. I didn't care about the miles. As mine is just an old farm truck..
But I got one that turned out to be worse than my 1st one .. SO I started over.. Next one more things works .. SO I'm going to say get the same year model .
 

u2slow

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On one of my trucks, somebody had jumpered 12v directly to the cluster from the headlight switch. I presume its a similar problem they worked around.
 
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