jtexas
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On the way to the lake Saturday morning I noticed the left brake/turn signal not functioning, so after fishing I spent a couple hours in the parking lot troubleshooting. No juice in the yellow wire on the vehicle side, all else was fine...started tracing. I concluded that the adapter on the vehicle harness must be bad, I'd have to hardwire it to the trailer thingy. Removed the taillight lense, unwrapped some wiring, cut a couple wires, yada yada...still no juice on the yellow wire, and upstream from there the wiring gets hairy.<br /><br />So, what the heck, I'll just drive home & deal with it there...so what I have to drive through downtown Dallas, I'll just stay in the same lane and try not to use the brakes 
.<br /><br />Turns out, I needed ford-trucks.com to tell me that Explorer has a fuse for the left trailer turn/brake and a fuse for the right trailer turn/brake. Who'd a thunk it? <br /><br />Check the fuse for the left side...it's intact...what the?!?!?! Check the fuse for the right side, it's blown. Check the dang diagram again...yup I read it right...it's just wrong.<br /><br />In case you were going to ask, no I didn't catch any fish, but I didn't skunked...didn't make a single cast...wind was so bad, after I rounded the point from the launch, I couldn't get onto the main lake...there was not a single boat out there. And construction on the new Bass Pro Shop seems to be going v-e-r-y slowly...wonder if they're going to have a drive-thru for boats...
.<br /><br />Turns out, I needed ford-trucks.com to tell me that Explorer has a fuse for the left trailer turn/brake and a fuse for the right trailer turn/brake. Who'd a thunk it? <br /><br />Check the fuse for the left side...it's intact...what the?!?!?! Check the fuse for the right side, it's blown. Check the dang diagram again...yup I read it right...it's just wrong.<br /><br />In case you were going to ask, no I didn't catch any fish, but I didn't skunked...didn't make a single cast...wind was so bad, after I rounded the point from the launch, I couldn't get onto the main lake...there was not a single boat out there. And construction on the new Bass Pro Shop seems to be going v-e-r-y slowly...wonder if they're going to have a drive-thru for boats...