Posted 2006-03-12 10:21 PM (#38724 - in reply to #38721) Subject: RE: Help
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I did that -- I forgot to unplug when I unhitched! Limped back into town. Took some good natured teasing from the wiring guy. I think he charged me $50 to replace the plug.
He said that it wasn't the first time he'd fixed something like that.
Posted 2006-03-13 1:03 PM (#38741 - in reply to #38726) Subject: RE: Help
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We still don't know what the damage is.
Have you just ripped the cover/latch off the truck's receptacle ?
Is the trailer's wiring pulled out from the plug ?
Is the trailer's wiring ripped apart ?
Details, we can probably help you if we have some details.
Posted 2006-03-13 1:34 PM (#38745 - in reply to #38741) Subject: RE: Help
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Location: Weatherford, TX 76087
The male in the bed of the truck is in tact. The Female connector on the trailer is in tact. All that has happened is the wires pulled out of the female on the trailer and I need to find out how to re-wire it so I can get the lights working the way their supposed to. On the Female itself it has designated colors and spots for the wiring, but when I put red to red, white to white, black to black, green to green, brown to brown...the last spot on the plug is for a blue wire and the last wire coming from the trailer is yellow, so I put yellow wire in the blue spot on the plug and get a crazy combination of lights. I'm going to try and switch the black and put it to the blue and the yellow in the black spot tonight to see if that will work. You'd think if someone was going to wire something that they would use a standard color code, but I guess they're smarter than me.
Posted 2006-03-13 2:22 PM (#38750 - in reply to #38721) Subject: RE: Help
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They do adhere to a standard, not all of them adhere to the SAME standard.
Yellow is SOMETIMES used for back-up lights, blue is almost always used for electric brakes.
etrailer.com has a chart for most of the common standards, I think there was also a link or copy of it at this site's home page. http://www.horsetrailerworld.com