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Update: after searching for most of the afternoon, I have given up and put the truck together and will take another stab at it another day. If anyone can offer some advise, it would be very much appreciated! As back ground, the vehicle is a 2000 Ranger, standard cab, 3.0 automatic, XL trim...

PS: I am aware of the underhood relay / fuse box - but diagram of this box seems to indicate that none of these are related to the GEM/ interior stuff (except for the main power feed fuse/ fuses of course)

Hey gents... .. been laying on my back trying to find this thing. I can not even find an auxiliary relay box - anywhere. See the attached pics... these are taken with the camera on the floor pan - I put a piece of blue tape on the gas pedal for visual reference. Am I blind, stupid, or...

Howdy folks - I have a parasitic battery draw on my 2000 Ford Ranger. I have narrowed this down to fuse #26 which contains the GEM and battery saver relay. One of my master mechanic friends told me that it is not uncommon for the battery saver relay to be the root cause. To trouble shoot...

Ron D - So, just printed these all out and took a look. Basically, I think I was on the right path looking at fuse position 1-5-9. The are on the top of the second page you sent. Short story - these feed to the Maxi fuse under the hood through the tan/blk power feed wires with a few...

Rock on!! Basically been trying to deduce with VOM what you just sent me!! Awesome. .. printing them out now and going back to the shop.

Update: Continuing to probe the fuse box - I found fuse positions 1 (power mirror switch) 7.5 A, position 5 (not used), and position 9 (brake position switch) 7.5A are all fed by the same wire through a localized buss bar. The vehicle does not have power mirrors, so total load across these...

Update: Pulled face off fuse box to see what I was working with. Fuse positions 12 (unused), 16 (windshield wiper motor), 30 A, and 20 (radio, RAP, GEM) 7.5A all have same main power feed and are tied together. I checked continuity with fuses pulled and battery disconnected. Given the...

Gotcha and understand. The power seat harness has two inline fuses. One for left side seat and the other for the right. As received, each had a 10 amp fuse in them, so total of 20 max. The power feed wires to the seat heaters can not be any larger than 18 ga. - I am actually very...

.. actually, my idea is to just use the "add a circuit" fuse tap and call it day. That is, without relay. In my mind, this would be a lot safer than running a new "hot" all the way from the battery, through the firewall, etc. There are not a lot of "extra holes" in the cab that I could...

As always, thanks for the smokin fast responses - especially the insight into the shorting bar. .. alternate strategy. By probing the fuse box, I discovered a few unused fuse spots that are 12V with key on. I am going to run to Autozone and pick up a few "add a circuit" fuse tap and see if...

...truck is an automatic.

....it is indeed roughly where a clutch pedal would go. 6 pins.

Thanks for the response... the relay route is exactly what I am thinking.. In my "perfect little world" I am hoping there is an unused connector I can plug into rather than hacking into the existing harness. The connector in the pic in the original post caught my attention. It had a "blank"...

Howdy all - While I was doing a light restoration / refresh on my 2000 Ranger, I added heated seats. Im doing final assembly today and was looking for a circuit to tap into. While peering under the dash, I found this unused connector. Question #1 - Anyone have any idea what it is? I...