Rewiring a trailer involves removing the old wiring and trailer lights routing the new wiring harness through the trailer frame installing new trailer lights and testing the lights.

Rewiring a trailer.

Filthy rich shows you how to wire up your tow trailer lights so they don t give you future headaches. Let s see what types of connectors the trailer light wiring industry uses today. Attach the white wire to the trailer frame and use it as the ground wire. Connect the wiring to each trailer light. This often happens when a boat trailer is backed into water with the trailer wiring still connected to the vehicle. If you re new to the channel then welcome.

If you don t follow this your trailer or tow vehicle can t be used with any other implement. Plugs trailer side and sockets vehicle side are available in all standard formats and can be spliced into your existing tow wiring. There is a standard method of wiring a 7 pin trailer connector. Attach the brown wire to the taillights. Water can unite all 4 wires on the trailer connector causing it to draw too many amps. The purpose of my videos is to entertain and inform others in a lawn care industry through video s of h.

While the basic configuration is a 4 way flat connector that features one female and three male ends you may come across connectors with up to seven pins for additional functions that require wiring including electrically actuated brakes power source for a winch etc. To solve the problem of connections getting wet always disconnect the trailer connections before backing. If the trailer plug wiring on your vehicle or trailer is damaged or not working correctly you can replace the connector with a curt splice in plug or socket. This guide walks through the steps required for how to rewire trailer lights. Trailers typically use a four wire flat plug. Traditional trailer with brakes use a 5 pin connector.

Blue electric brakes or hydraulic reverse disable see blue wire notes below in the trailer wiring diagram and connector application chart below use the first 5 pins and ignore the rest. Trailer connectors get wet causing too many amps to be pulled through the converter. Learn how to repair a trailer wiring harness that was damaged when borrowed by someone who did not connect the wiring to their vehicle. 1 4 wire the first 4 pins white brown yellow green just like the 4 pin connector above. This is a very simple. Find the trailer light wiring diagram below that corresponds to your existing configuration.

In this situation affix the green wire to the right turn signal and the yellow wire to the left turn signal.