HELP HELP: No Wipers! or Radio

[btm757]

to start I have a 2004 Supercab, 4.0L 4x4. After market radio

My radio the bast couple of months my radio would occasionally loose power with the key off and I would lose all my presets. well the past couple of weeks it would do it alot. This past week while driving all of a sudden the radio just went dead, I thought ahh crap this sucks, I got to where I was going took the radio out wiggled the wires and radio came back on. well its done it a few times now and then today I got in turned the key and no radio. so i messed with it for about 10 mins and the radio would not come back on. So I came home and on my way home I found out. My wipers or Washer wouldnt work at all.

I got home ran down all my fuses and they are all good.
The connection on the plug from the radio the battery wire looked like it had gotten kinda hot.
Opened the hood ran all the fuses down and they were all good.
Neither relay clicked when I pushed the switch or turned the knob.

I have had no other electrical problems
And this is the first time the wipers have done this.


Please any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[buzzworth]

Close to the same happened to me. wipers, washer, interior lights, and power door locks all quit. It was the interior "smart junction box". Dealer couldn't get the part from Ford so I settled for one from a yard.
They installed and it cost me $423.

same year, 4.0 4x4.....seems this may be a part that is peculiar to that year.

 

[btm757]

Is the smart Junction box the thing that holds all the fuses inside the truck?

 

[hondaxr650]

Yeah, it's a fuse panel/module combo that basically controls the things that the GEM used to control. It is also a programmable module that requires uploading the info from it into the scan tool, then downloading that info back into the new module. Not just a part swap.

 

[btm757]

Soo an 04 does not have a GEM, it has a SJB

 

[hondaxr650]

Soo an 04 does not have a GEM, it has a SJB

Correct