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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MyLittlePony" data-source="post: 1514230" data-attributes="member: 11359">Except those few work and have no connection to the problem whatsoever. Turn the knob, interior lighting, including the gauges work. Adjust the knob, and the lightning brightens or darkens depending on the user. If nothing lit up, I would check the headlamp switch because I know I messed with it when removing the knob, and may have been turned in the dimmest position.[ATTACH=full]22799[/ATTACH]As you can see, all that curcuit does is light the brake and high beam indicators. Not all the stuff that I was having an issue with. That fuse (#13) was fine.[ATTACH=full]22800[/ATTACH]This is essentially everything that wasn’t working when I created this thread. Having #15 fuse blow pretty much indicates that this is where the problem is located.A short would blow a 15amp fuse and even 20 AWG wire will support 15 amps for a 16" run. This thread was created in hopes to locate the problem since diagnosis of everything else turned up nothing. It wouldn’t let me delete the thread, so I added the discovery of the fuse hoping that maybe at least it could help someone else in the future, since checking the fuses should be the first thing you do. Now that we know where the problem is, we can focus our attention there.My husband ran a second 8 gauge power block straight from the battery into a fused distribution block with a relay for all this aftermarket stuff. Essentially while the dash was out, he was trying to clean up the 25+ years of spaghetti wiring it had accumulated throughout the years. Everything not Ford should be on that block, but I don’t know, which is why my husband can look at that specific circuit to see what’s up.I feel that all my interior lighting should be on that new power block, but he did mention that my aftermarket reverse glow illumination cluster panel, which was always on when the car was on, now will only come on differently, so maybe that’s it.Edit: He said he tapped the reverse glow to the illumination circuit on the back of the gauge cluster, and did that AFTER the blown fuse in hopes that would help him figure out why the gauges weren’t working. The V6 cluster has the same kit on it, but disconnected. It didn’t work because the fuse was still blown.</blockquote>