today i was driving to my moms house than all of the sudden my high beams and all other driving lights went out, and my fog lights stay on untill i turn off the lights, the only other lights that work are the interior lights (not the gauge panel) and my brake lights.....is there some sort of safety feature that will have my fog lights on if my high beams are off.....please give me some advice, i won't beable to work on it till tomorrow morning so i want to get some info before i do....thanks

 

have you checked the most common thing that happens on every electrical system ever devised!?!?!?!?! a fuse?

 

yes i have, i'm not that incompetent...lol, but i understand some people forget the easiest things...but ya i already checked them, i'll do more work in the morning i just wanted to know if it was some kind of safety feature where the fog lights stay on if the headbeams don't work....

 

no, fog lamps wont work unless headlights are on that all i can think of.

 

I had almost that exact problem! Except all my lights minus interior and turning signals turned off.
It's stupid, but I actually wiggled the fuse and the lights went back on.
I really need to take a better look at it though... 'cause last time it happened was around 10 @ night on a non-lighted highway

 

thanks guys, but i checked the fuses and all the commections and they are all on and strong....it's confusing me cause the only lights that work are the foglights, brake light, and interior lights (not the gauge panel), but i'm going to keep looking....thanks for the help

 

Simple way to diagnose electrical probs... use a multimeter (or voltmeter) and start tracing back the wiring to find where there is (or isn't) power.

 

Check the blue fusible link near the battery.
it would be the first one in the row.
take it out and use a temporary jumper.
you usually can't tell that it's blown just by looking at it.

 

thanks for your help guys, i'll go ahead and check that..

 

Whoa MikeZ... nice '70!!! Love the paint and wheel combo. 350? 454?

 

Oh, the SS is my uncle Cliff's. From what I remember it's a 454' but im not sure.
There is a funny story behind that pic

 

and????????

 

...And the story is that I hadn't seen him(uncle) in like 5 years. And when I went down with my friend to this car car show in Anderson, I saw him.
I was like,"Hey, i haven't seen you since I was 14..."
And then he's all, "Remeber that pile of crap sitting my backyard?"
Then I said "yees?"
And he pointed at the chevelle. I couldn't believe it. It WAS SOOOOO TIGHT!
I couldn't believe it!
The car was so crappy before, rusted and on cinders. Apparently he invested in XBOX or something and got bank.

So yeah it was wierd to say the least. But he had to run so i didn't really get to catch up.
But yea, his friend had one almost just like it but with with a metallic paint.

He had a Dart and a challenger in his "hayday", he used to race all the time,and he was the one that got me into cars

 

hey everyone i finally got my lights to work, it was 2 pinche fuses near the kick panel on the drivers seat, one was broke and the other was blown out...

 

and he says he checked the fuses

 

AWW. Silly goose

 

He said "checked" not "checked them closely"

 

lol sorry guys i was in a rush that day, but ya i finally did get them fixed but i need to rewire my front end, the previous owner tried a DIY thing with the lights which put too much power throught the wires and melted them together....but it will only be 100$ to rewire them plus i'm going to put new performance grounding wires in also.....