{"id":50327,"date":"2017-02-16T09:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=50327"},"modified":"2017-02-16T09:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:54:07","slug":"1999-ford-f-150-5-4l-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/02\/1999-ford-f-150-5-4l-engine","title":{"rendered":"Ignition Switch 1999 Ford F-150 5.4L Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30207\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1998-ford-f150.jpg\" alt=\"Ford F150\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1998-ford-f150.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1998-ford-f150-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>When I turn off the truck and take the keys out of the ignition, my trucks electrical components such as fuel gauge and odometer is still on. The next day my truck&#8217;s battery is dead. Please help me find the cause. Thanks!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>Most likely reason would be the ignition switch(not the key and tumbler) is not being turned off. This can be from a failing ignition switch. If the key lock cylinder has been recently replaced there may be a misalignment issue.<\/p>\n<h3>Ignition Switch Replacement<\/h3>\n<!-- PDF Embedder: Embedding \/securepdfs\/ PDFs requires PDF Embedder Pro. -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I turn off the truck and take the keys out of the ignition, my trucks electrical components such as fuel gauge and odometer is still on. The next day my truck&#8217;s battery is dead. Please help me find the cause. Thanks! RESPONSE Most likely reason would be the ignition switch(not the key and tumbler)&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/02\/1999-ford-f-150-5-4l-engine\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ignition Switch 1999 Ford F-150 5.4L Engine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[409,258],"class_list":["post-50327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ford","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-f150","tag-ignition-switch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}