Wiring brake light.
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Wiring brake light.
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You have to run a special wire for it from the front of the truck. If you already have a third brake light in the rear of the cab, you can hook it up there. If not, you need to go directly to the brake pedal switch.
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and about the third brake light, where can I tap the new wire? are any specific fuse for it? or where?
thanks you again.
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You have to tap into the lightgreen wire going to the brake switch. I have heard of some sort of aftermarket lights that you can hook to the taillights, and it will ignore the turnsignal blinking, but I have never seen one or used on before.
I assumed you are hooking up a small third brakelight on the top rear of the camper correct?
I assumed you are hooking up a small third brakelight on the top rear of the camper correct?
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You have to tap into the lightgreen wire going to the brake switch. I have heard of some sort of aftermarket lights that you can hook to the taillights, and it will ignore the turnsignal blinking, but I have never seen one or used on before.
I assumed you are hooking up a small third brakelight on the top rear of the camper correct?
I assumed you are hooking up a small third brakelight on the top rear of the camper correct?
The third brake light on the top rear of the camper is a 30 led light, like thouse of some suburbans from ´91., so I think is not a SMALL light.
After trying to find out where to connect the light, I found in the harness under the rear bumper, a wire with a "free" connect (non used to anything) and it has power only with the brake pedal, so I connected the light there and worked fine for some time, BUT then after a few minutes, blown the fuse # 13 (15 amp) in the dash. What can I do to fix that, put a bigger fuse
or to put some relay? or what, thanks for your input.
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But Im going to check the wire a found and the new connections for some kind of possible shorts. Thanks again.
