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left rear cap area

I'm having an issue with my rear clearance lights.  No power to any of them.  Sides and front are OK.  Brett suggested I check for adequate ground, which I did.  I asked James Triana about the route and location of the wires to these lights.  He said they are in the left rear cap area and go up to the lights.  I'm not sure what he means.  Cap sounds like top but why would he then say they go UP to the lights?  I think he is calling the entire rear section the cap area.  I guess that means I need to look for wires that branch off and go up from others that go to the tail lights?  I've had so much work done lately that I'm afraid someone snagged a wire loose.  I know I completed my project of screwing tan plastic covered screws throughout the ceiling area to resecure the sagging vinyl headliner, which looks ok as far as I'm concerned but I was afraid I screwed a screw in and shorted out a wire running to those lights.  From James Triana's reply, I am assuming that the wiring does not run up under that headliner after all.  Has anyone else ever had something similar occur?
Dwayne Keith
1992 U240
3116/MD3060

Re: left rear cap area

Reply #1
James is correct of course.

All motorhomes have a separate one-piece front and rear cap with most attached to the main body at a vertical seam.

Look up inside the rear engine access door, which is hung on the rear cap, and you may the wires.

I also think the wires to the marker lights may also come from inside bedroom.

Re: left rear cap area

Reply #2
It was right where James Triana said it would be.  If it was a snake it would have bit me.  A wire branching off from the ones feeding the left tail light that goes up a bit and into the fiberglass was broken off.  Reconnected it and rear clearance lights are back on.
Dwayne Keith
1992 U240
3116/MD3060