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Another trailer light question
I replaced the lights and wiring harness on the trailer with LEDs. I
connected the side and rear clearance light wire (not replaced, coming out the tail-end of the driver side) to the hot wire so there's 3 wires connected in one cap and the two green/ground wires in the other cap. Everything works fine. I disconnected all the clearance lights from its wire thinking it would pull out with the old wire harness. Now that salt can get into the clearance wire from the cuts from the 'saddlebag' connectors, will the tail lights still work after it corrodes? I know the clearance lights are required at night but very rarely do we get caught out after dark. Is the clearance wire for all the side lights not part of the wiring harness I got with the new light kit? CB |
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:35:58 -0400, "Spear Chucky"
wrote: I replaced the lights and wiring harness on the trailer with LEDs. I connected the side and rear clearance light wire (not replaced, coming out the tail-end of the driver side) to the hot wire so there's 3 wires connected in one cap and the two green/ground wires in the other cap. Everything works fine. I disconnected all the clearance lights from its wire thinking it would pull out with the old wire harness. Now that salt can get into the clearance wire from the cuts from the 'saddlebag' connectors, will the tail lights still work after it corrodes? I know the clearance lights are required at night but very rarely do we get caught out after dark. Is the clearance wire for all the side lights not part of the wiring harness I got with the new light kit? In most trailer wiring schemes, the clearance lights are spliced into the parking lights line - they don't have a separate wire other than the positive lead - the ground is the frame of the trailer and the clearance light. Later, Tom ----------- "Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt..." Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653 |
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Is the clearance wire for all the side lights not part of the wiring harness
I got with the new light kit? They just splice in but you are correct, every splice is another point for corrosion failure. What I do is run a wire from the side light BACK to the tail light and connect them all together with one crimp connector. Then put a dab of silicone on each end of the connector to seal it. It takes a little extra time and wire but it works for years. |
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On 26 Oct 2004 01:17:14 GMT, obull (CCred68046) wrote: Is the clearance wire for all the side lights not part of the wiring harness I got with the new light kit? They just splice in but you are correct, every splice is another point for corrosion failure. What I do is run a wire from the side light BACK to the tail light and connect them all together with one crimp connector. Then put a dab of silicone on each end of the connector to seal it. It takes a little extra time and wire but it works for years. Thanks I use Never Seize - buy it at NAPA. I also use it on my batteries. Works slicker than snot. I used Liquid Tape because it doesn't oxidize like silicone. -- SC "These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." --Thomas Paine John F'ing Kerry, Summer Soldier |
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