S-10 Trouble with Taillights

Hi everyone, I am having some electrical trouble with my 2000 chevy s-10. For some reason, after I removed and cleaned my right air valve that was sticking. My tail lights stopped working (Im using the LED tail light bulbs hyper red). Espically the right tail light, because it kept blowing the fuses the most. So what I did was disconnect hot lead to the battery,and replaced both of the bulbs as well as the fuses. After blowing a whole box of Bus 10 fuses I Finally disconected the power to the battery, and thourly cleaned all of the grounds.I checked all of the fuses under the hood, and I found that two of them were blown it was the Right turn singal, and the Left turn signals that were blown (they are number 10 bus fuses). I put the hot lead to the battery back on then I tested it out, and I switched the LED light bulbs around. Finally they work with out blowing the fuse. They now work when I press on the brake. But I have a new problem now, now my god damn right tail light will not light up at night when Im driving like it's suppost to. It will when Im brakeing, but the other bulbs wont stay on while IM driving. I looked in the fuse box, and I blew the RR PRK It was also a bus 10 fuse. So my question is what is wrong? Is it these new LED tail light bulbs? OR is something arking like a loose ground? What should I do cause Im going through fuses like a box of chocolates here!If anyone can help me out Id be stoked, and very grateful. Thankyou ~JP

i had the same problem on mine. follow the ground comin off the taillights and they should go to a lil green clip ground distribution. i had to cut a wire and reground it. i had to test those wires one by one to fix the problem. good luck with it

man recheck all your grounds and your connectors(the ones under the bed/frame that plug into the sockets for your lights) also there is a harness near your fuse box think its one wire only along the fender..Last it may be the bulbs, just replace both of them..

Hey bro thankyou so much for that info. As soon as daylight wakes my lazy ass up tommarow I will deff. try that. Where exactly is this lil green clip ground distribution located on the truck. Is it grounded under the hood somewhere or on the chasis?

The tail lights are brand new but thay are the APC hyper red LED's so I was thinking they might be more powerful than the stock tail light bulbs and thats why the fuses cant hang with the amount of electricity going through them but I will try to go over all of my wire and find that green one!

should be near the ground bolt at the bottom of the frame. theres 2 on either side. have a green clip on them......

OH shit I know what your talking about I already cleaned those and reattached 'em. All I know it It happened right after I disconnected all the ground wires to my right air valve when I tryed to clean it man! So I have no Idea what to do did you blow the RR PRK fuse? And did your tail lights stop working? All I know it it did look like the inside of bulb scokets looked kinda oxidized so I'll try to clean them tommarow!

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dude..there is something goofy w/ the 2000's...mine did the same thing, and ive seen like 5 others w/ it(all 2000 models)...i just made a jumper wire from the left tail to the right so the parking light would work, and havent had a prob sence..good luck

You serious man you think its a defect from the factory? Are you using the LED tail light bulbs?