Last night I installed an aftermarket cd player in my truck. Wired all the wires together with butt connectors, taped up all the loose wires and all the good stuff. I go to get into my truck this morning and I realize I have no lights on my instrument panel. Nothing, not even on my a/c control.

First thing I checked was my fuses, and they are all working with current. Don't know where to go from here.

 

Do you mean to say you checked ( with a meter ) the fuse for the instrument illumination, and had voltage on both sides of the fuse ?

If so, that only leaves the instrument panel dimmer switch.

1. It is rolled all the way down, try rolling it up to the point of turning on the courtesy/cargo lamps

or

2. The Instrument panel dimmer is now bad for some reason. If you have voltage at both sides of the instrument panel illumination fuse, that means it is not getting through the dimmer switch.

Check the connector on the main headlamp switch for voltage on the light blue w/ red stripe wire ( with the parking lamps or headlamps turned on ).
If you have nothing on that circuit, check the brown wire for voltage ( parking lamps, voltage to the dimmer switch ).

This is assuming your check of the instrument panel illumination fuse for voltage was done correctly.

 

Yes, I have voltage on both sides of the illumination switch.


Though, while wiring my harness and radio together, I had the orange and white striped wire, wired to a solid orange wire. While there wasn't any orange white striped wire on the wiring harness, there was an orange black striped wire. Then, I was told I don't need to wire the Illumination wires in my truck.

I'm not even sure any more, I just hope it isn't expensive.

 

What voltage do you have ?

If you have voltage on both sides, and they are the same, the instrument illumination should work.

Either that, or you cut the instrument illumination feed just prior to the splice for the fan out to the different items ( cluster, HVAC, audio unit, etc ).

 

I didn't cut anything, simply removed stock radio, wire wiring harness, put aftermarket radio back in. That is all that was done.

 

Boy do I feel like a ****weed, apparently above the emergency brake release, there's fuse box. I guess the "fuses" part threw me off on the cover. Went through all, found the one that was blown and replaced it. Good as new now!