I'm going to pick up a boat, the seller says the lights on the trailer work.
I own a ford E350 van, the trailer harness at the hitch is dead, I backtracked to a round 4 pin plug under the van but its still dead there, fuse test ok.
Tell me if I've done this correctly please.
I opened up the rear lights and took the pos and neg from drivers side running lights and brake light (same bulb).
The turn signal is also the same bulb so I ran another wire for that (driver side) , I snaked the wires inside then through the floor to the hitch.
From the other side I only ran the turn signal wire.
Is that ok so far?
The problem is.... I bought a flat 4 pin connector but don't know which of my wires to hook to the connector.
I have pos, neg running/brake light wires (2).
And 2 turn wires left/right.
Does the neg wire become the common negative, seems so.
Does this neg wire get grounded to the trailers frame?
If so, does that automatically ground the trailer to the van's gound?
The color coding on the flat 4 harness I bought is;
white(ground)
brown
yellow
green
The only one I know is white = ground.
The boat is 2 hrs away and the seller knows less than I do.
I plan to take along, pliers, elec tape, twist nuts etc.
But it would be nice if I could have it set up before going.
Hows my thinking?
I own a ford E350 van, the trailer harness at the hitch is dead, I backtracked to a round 4 pin plug under the van but its still dead there, fuse test ok.
Tell me if I've done this correctly please.
I opened up the rear lights and took the pos and neg from drivers side running lights and brake light (same bulb).
The turn signal is also the same bulb so I ran another wire for that (driver side) , I snaked the wires inside then through the floor to the hitch.
From the other side I only ran the turn signal wire.
Is that ok so far?
The problem is.... I bought a flat 4 pin connector but don't know which of my wires to hook to the connector.
I have pos, neg running/brake light wires (2).
And 2 turn wires left/right.
Does the neg wire become the common negative, seems so.
Does this neg wire get grounded to the trailers frame?
If so, does that automatically ground the trailer to the van's gound?
The color coding on the flat 4 harness I bought is;
white(ground)
brown
yellow
green
The only one I know is white = ground.
The boat is 2 hrs away and the seller knows less than I do.
I plan to take along, pliers, elec tape, twist nuts etc.
But it would be nice if I could have it set up before going.
Hows my thinking?
