tailgate wiring update
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tailgate wiring update
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 27-Mar-01 AT 10:27 PM (EST)[/font][p]I have power all the way to the motor but still no movement, when I spliced in the new motor and was checking the power with a meter the other hot wiring touched the tailgate and the motor ran. To me this is a ground poblem- but the ground that bolts to my left tail lite is only going to the rear defroster hook-up no place else, what I think is when you actuate the switch and switch polarity the other wire acts as a ground, and I don't have a switch up front in the cab, and the wiring diagram in haynes only shows ground in the front switch nowhere else??? I tore apart my entire wiring harness checked every wire and put it back I have power but aparently no ground? Is the switch it's own ground and if so is it bad? I did find under the glove compartment the hook-up for the fronyt switch if it came with it, but all the wires are dead no power what so ever. Is there a way to ground the system ie: cheet the system?
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tailgate wiring update
he prev owner took out the dash mtd. switch?
ok..go back to what bob said..the solid BLACK wire is the ground..check it with your mm..if it is open, then fumper it to a clean ground..bumper..frame.
also, there should be 2 connectors in the left tail light..one is for the rear defroster, of course.. you can use this ground if the wiring isnt hacked up
i forget what year you have..i see a cb in the 90-91 Haynes manual in the motor diagram section
ok..go back to what bob said..the solid BLACK wire is the ground..check it with your mm..if it is open, then fumper it to a clean ground..bumper..frame.
also, there should be 2 connectors in the left tail light..one is for the rear defroster, of course.. you can use this ground if the wiring isnt hacked up
i forget what year you have..i see a cb in the 90-91 Haynes manual in the motor diagram section
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