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Running Lights Wont Come On..help!

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OK..Dash lights wont come on so I look and find out the running lights arent on either. I thought this might me a safety feature (as in HEY..your running lights arent on so we will make the dash lights not work so you notice it) so I checked my mini fuses under dash..nothing so I pulled ALL of them, all good. I also checked the fuses under the hood..all good. Then I pulled the bulbs in the back..they are all good. My break lights work, my headlights work (did I mention my daytime lamps and auto lamps at night havent worked for some time?) but no running lamps front or back. We pulled the switch out to look at it..there are 2 plug ins..one for switch and one for dash dimmer switch..you have to have the dimmer switch pluged in to get the headlights to work, that seemed odd. With the headlight switch unpluged the socket shows voltage..plug it in and it doesnt show any voltage. PLEASE help me!! Thanks in advance fellas! :notworthy:
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I would guess the headlight switch is bad. I know one time I was about to go out to drive at night and I turned on my parking lights and they didn't light up and in the headlight position, only the headlights were illuminated. Turns out the harness was loose from the time I took the dash apart to put the new speedo in.
Those are parking lights. It's the first "click" of the headlight switch before the headlights.

Yeah, it could be the relay or the wiring harness. I have no clue where the relay is.
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