Reverse light wire
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Reverse light wire
Where the H E Double Hockey Sticks is this thing? I can find it fine back at the tail light (of course), but from there it seems to disappear up behind the bumper behind the hitch, between the gas tank, over the river and through the woods.
I have an '01 with V-10. I've looked at the wire bundles coming up along the door sills, on both sides, and I'll be danged if I can find a black w/pink stripe. If anyone knows for sure where/what color wire I should be looking for, and best yet has PICTURES of it, I would definitely add them to my Christmas list.
I just bought a 33' camper and having the wife guide me got old real fast. She tries hard, and generally gets the job done, but all the arm waving and finger pointing she does makes me a bit edgy during the process.
I have an '01 with V-10. I've looked at the wire bundles coming up along the door sills, on both sides, and I'll be danged if I can find a black w/pink stripe. If anyone knows for sure where/what color wire I should be looking for, and best yet has PICTURES of it, I would definitely add them to my Christmas list.
I just bought a 33' camper and having the wife guide me got old real fast. She tries hard, and generally gets the job done, but all the arm waving and finger pointing she does makes me a bit edgy during the process.
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the best place i located mine was on my F250 (haven't installed the back up camera on my Ex yet) was along the frame rail right about on the door split (between front and rear door), on the drivers side (of course). if that makes sense at all.
i had to take the outer covering off the harness in about a 2 ft section. didn't cut it off just slid the wires out of the split loom. get you a small pen style flash light, OR a good floor stand light and shine it on the harness as you flip threw the wires.
this part is where a wife, kid ect comes in handy..... in my harness there was a brown/orange wire as well. well i was double checking to see which wire was actually the reverse wire. i used a test light to barely poke threw the wire, had my wife put the truck in "R" test light came on when i had it in the BLACK/Pink wire, didn't when it was in the other wire. didn't even have to crawl out from under the truck.
hope that helps out some (sorry about no pics)
i had to take the outer covering off the harness in about a 2 ft section. didn't cut it off just slid the wires out of the split loom. get you a small pen style flash light, OR a good floor stand light and shine it on the harness as you flip threw the wires.
this part is where a wife, kid ect comes in handy..... in my harness there was a brown/orange wire as well. well i was double checking to see which wire was actually the reverse wire. i used a test light to barely poke threw the wire, had my wife put the truck in "R" test light came on when i had it in the BLACK/Pink wire, didn't when it was in the other wire. didn't even have to crawl out from under the truck.
hope that helps out some (sorry about no pics)
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I ended up running 2 wires from the rear to the front. One from the backup light behind the tail light lens and another to power the backup camera from the ignition wire. My new head unit has a function to turn the rear view camera on anytime so I needed constant power to it when the EX was on, instead of using the power from the light which is only on when in reverse.
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If you are trying to feed a 12V+ to a back up camera, I would try splicing into the wires for the license plate lights. Behind the license plate is a huge opening. Instead of the camera coming on when you put in R, you will need to turn your parking lights or headlights on. Best to get a voltmeter to check which is the positive and which is negative. Just a thought.
Or, if you want, you can get a 4 pin flat plug that fits below the 7 pin socket. Brown is typically the tail light marker and white is the ground. Yellow and green are your turn signal/brake lights so those will only come on when you apply your brakes or use your turn signals. Using the brown wire, you will still need to turn on your parking lights or headlights.
Or, if you want, you can get a 4 pin flat plug that fits below the 7 pin socket. Brown is typically the tail light marker and white is the ground. Yellow and green are your turn signal/brake lights so those will only come on when you apply your brakes or use your turn signals. Using the brown wire, you will still need to turn on your parking lights or headlights.
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I should have been a bit more informative. I'm not looking to hook up the camera, it's already hooked up to the head unit, rather there is a reverse sensing wire from the head unit that needs to be hooked up to the reverse circuit so the head unit knows when reverse is engaged.
It seems a bit silly to have to run a wire all the way from the head unit back to the tail lights (it isn't long enough anyway) when the proper wire can probably be located under or near the dash area. If it can't then so be it but I'd be surprised.
I know I could go through the parking light switch, hook up direct switched power etc etc but I'd rather keep it as intended.
It seems a bit silly to have to run a wire all the way from the head unit back to the tail lights (it isn't long enough anyway) when the proper wire can probably be located under or near the dash area. If it can't then so be it but I'd be surprised.
I know I could go through the parking light switch, hook up direct switched power etc etc but I'd rather keep it as intended.
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