Posted by KEH on January 02, 2015 at 12:45:04 from (67.231.175.190):
I hate working on trailer lights! A couple of relatives and I own a gooseneck trailer, no problems with joint ownership. I got the trailer to haul some hay and stupidly broke the 6 prong connector while turning short. Got a new connector and started trying to fix it. The first day I worked on it was rainy and cold, but installed the connector and found that right turn signals and brake lights did not work and that the electric brakes did not work. One of the problems was that the instructions with the new connector called for the white wire to be ground, and the wireing did not have a white wire. Tried black which seems to be right. Yesterday was nice and sunny and I worked on it again, for a long time. This trailer has a junction box half way down the frame with connections labeled by having the different functions labeled with wire color molded into the box. Used the probe with light, clamp, and sharp point. Lack of unrusted bare metal and the little clamp jaws being weak led me to get a piece of flat brass(obtained by flattening a cartridge case), filing a bare spot, and clamping the brass to the frame with a small c clamp. Worked fine, still no right turn signals, or lights on the right side. Modified my probe technique by clamping the little jaws to bare wire and pushing the sharp end of the probe into the painted/rusty metal. Went to the rear of the trailer, found broken wires, tested and found fire on one. Spliced the wires, lights and signals work. Apparently one of us had drug the rear of the trailer over something and broke the wire. Tied the wires up out of harms way.
Brakes still don't work. Suspect the controller in the truck. In furthur checking, found I had run the battery down, charged battery a while, by this time it was about dark so quit so spent time raking leaves, another least favorite job.
Today it is raining. Did I mention I hate working on trailer lights?
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