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Posted: Feb. 07 2006,7:46 pm |
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| Quote (AZKC @ Feb. 07 2006,8:18 pm) | Something so simple, 4 wires why does it take so much stuff  |
New technology remember, it ain't a 70's vehicle simplicity has gone by by!.. 
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Posted: Feb. 08 2006,4:35 am |
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| Quote (stingray @ Feb. 07 2006,10:29 pm) | | Quote (AZKC @ Feb. 07 2006,7:09 am) | So it had one of the adapter kits on it for a clean install but it was for the flat 4 pin connector, and the ground was a joke. I wanted to keep the 4 pin for any other trailer I may tow but the Blue Canoe trailer is set up with the round 6 pin. So I just T-Tapped into the harness and it was a done deal. While I was in there I took apart the old connections to clean them up and put some Dielectric grease on them. They were pretty corroded.
I've got 2 extra pins on the trailer plugged that I wired up. I'm wanting to put back-up lights on the trailer. So that will take one and I'll save the other if I ever need a feed for electric brakes. |
It's to late now, but did you think of doing a new style 7 plug? if you run electric brakes the trailer will need a battery and the truck can supply a hot lead to charge, then adapt backwards down to other trailers. then you could tow anything, travel trailers, boats, I have a pig tail with 7 leads and bullit connectors on the ends for about any hookup. |
I don't understand, why would the trailer need a battery??, my flatbed has electric brakes and it don't need a battery!.. 
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Posted: Feb. 08 2006,8:16 am |
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| Quote (GoFastRacer @ Feb. 08 2006,4:35 am) | | Quote (stingray @ Feb. 07 2006,10:29 pm) | | Quote (AZKC @ Feb. 07 2006,7:09 am) | So it had one of the adapter kits on it for a clean install but it was for the flat 4 pin connector, and the ground was a joke. I wanted to keep the 4 pin for any other trailer I may tow but the Blue Canoe trailer is set up with the round 6 pin. So I just T-Tapped into the harness and it was a done deal. While I was in there I took apart the old connections to clean them up and put some Dielectric grease on them. They were pretty corroded.
I've got 2 extra pins on the trailer plugged that I wired up. I'm wanting to put back-up lights on the trailer. So that will take one and I'll save the other if I ever need a feed for electric brakes. |
It's to late now, but did you think of doing a new style 7 plug? if you run electric brakes the trailer will need a battery and the truck can supply a hot lead to charge, then adapt backwards down to other trailers. then you could tow anything, travel trailers, boats, I have a pig tail with 7 leads and bullit connectors on the ends for about any hookup. |
I don't understand, why would the trailer need a battery??, my flatbed has electric brakes and it don't need a battery!.. |
I don't know about Az. but most new trailers in Ca. come with this type of setup. if that trailer comes loose and gets away from the truck, what good is electric brakes if there is no power source to apply them? At work we had a Vacume brake setup on our old trailers, they retrofitted all of them to electric with a dry cell and a solar panel. It also needs a brakeaway switch to apply them. I just rebuilt my buggy trailer and set it up that way, it had a battery for the electric winch, all I added was a charge wire from the truck and the brake away switch
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Posted: Feb. 08 2006,9:45 am |
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That's weird, I bought mine in CA in 93 and nothing was said about it. Of course I bought it to move my shit over here so I didn't register it in CA, and when I took it to MVD here to register it nothing was said about it either!.. I know semi's have to have it that's nationwde!..
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Posted: Feb. 08 2006,12:39 pm |
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| Quote (GoFastRacer @ Feb. 07 2006,7:46 pm) | | Quote (AZKC @ Feb. 07 2006,8:18 pm) | | Something so simple, 4 wires why does it take so much stuff |
New technology remember, it ain't a 70's vehicle simplicity has gone by by!.. Â |
Actually... on the trucks the year of KC's and mine (early to mid 90's), the trailer wires were pigtailed and wrapped up, on the harness across the back, from the factory. All you had to do was buy a connector and splice it on.
I didn't know that, until I was about to wire the Blazer for lights. My boss at work was a part time mechanic and he told be about the wires already being there. Shoot, GM even provided both charging and brake power wires. All that was required was to hook them up. It's pretty slick.
Alot of the GM trucks of the early 90's vintage have been hacked up when they didn't have to be.
I think KC said that someone had already spliced into his with a T adapter.
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,5:03 am |
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| Quote (Sleek-Jet @ Feb. 08 2006,1:39 pm) | | Alot of the GM trucks of the early 90's vintage have been hacked up when they didn't have to be. |
That can be said for just about all year vehicles!..
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,5:11 am |
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| Quote (stingray @ Feb. 08 2006,10:58 am) | Hitches under the truck  |
Cool setup!..
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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,8:36 pm |
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| Quote (stingray @ Feb. 09 2006,9:14 am) | | Works ok, I've done something like it on most trucks I own, that way the hitches stay with the truck and are not rolling around in the bed or stuck out of the hitch to trip over. Â |
Yeah I hear that, them hitches sticking out are just the right height to catch the shins, man does that hurt, LOL.. And when you put them in the bed, for some reason they always end up at the front, wonder why!..
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Posted: Feb. 10 2006,4:36 am |
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| Quote (Carrera Elite @ Feb. 09 2006,9:43 pm) | | I keep mine locked in the tow position..... |
Yeah I did that too until I got tired of whackin a shin everytime I walked behind the truck!.. And that would be the "Big Tow"!...
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