trailer wiring by color/function
Hotshot
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 10,060
Likes: 491
From: Bristol, TN.
Are all Ford trucks the same or nearly so. You could look up pigtail adapters for controllers and get a good read on how many are the same. I know my pigtail fits a good number of models. If not using a pigtail, it is pretty easy to test individual pins or leads at the connector.
Steve
Steve
Thread Starter
|
New User
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 13
Likes: 0
The more I look the deeper it gets. lol. started tracing some things out under dash. Again, the group of wires with a ford factory tag labeling them by color as brake feed, illumination, brake lamp from controller, etc. Those are kind of as I remember not exact. But apparently my 'pigtail' for brake controller? And wouldn't you know the brake controller feed and 'some other' feed are routed through a toggle switch on the dash. Flip the switch and that constant 12 goes away on blue wire. Aaaannnnddd....after replacing fuses and such, the orange is now ignition switch controlled hot wire. Things are kind of coming together, but still scratching my head on some of this.
Joe
Joe
Hotshot
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 10,060
Likes: 491
From: Bristol, TN.
Alrighty, so you have a switch that selectively makes wires at the rear continuously hot? Man some people have all the luck. LOL
I now have no clue. I guess someone left that switch out of my 02.
I now have no clue. I guess someone left that switch out of my 02.
Postmaster
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 3,914
Likes: 9
From: Thomaston
The more I look the deeper it gets. lol. started tracing some things out under dash. Again, the group of wires with a ford factory tag labeling them by color as brake feed, illumination, brake lamp from controller, etc. Those are kind of as I remember not exact. But apparently my 'pigtail' for brake controller? And wouldn't you know the brake controller feed and 'some other' feed are routed through a toggle switch on the dash. Flip the switch and that constant 12 goes away on blue wire. Aaaannnnddd....after replacing fuses and such, the orange is now ignition switch controlled hot wire. Things are kind of coming together, but still scratching my head on some of this.
Joe
Joe
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
snyda88
All Things Towing
3
Oct 11, 2011 12:46 AM
