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Summary: Learn how to connect your trailer to the right harness, make sure the wiring is correct, and ensure that your turn signals and brake lights work in this free automotive care video.
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Questions & AnswersHi, I am Albert Headsmith with Expert Village. Today we are going to talk a little bit about trailer maintenance. Let's talk a little bit about the electrical harness and some things to look at to maintain that so it works properly. First of all the electrical harness usually connects to the back of the truck, you can buy adapters if you have breaking systems that deal with electronic breaks, that it will disengage whenever you are in reverse. These adapters also send signals to your breaks, to your turn signals, and to your side reflectors that are all along the trailer. Once again warning people about the decisions that you are making with your vehicle and how you are moving the trailer. Checking the wiring harness is a pretty basic thing one of the first things that you want to make sure is that the trailer and the wiring harness can move freely and cannot disconnect the cable while the trailer is moving on an axis. So you want to leave some slack when you connect it to the back of the truck. Most of these are pretty simple pin connections, if you need adaptors to run your breaking system or to adapt to the plug that is on your car. You can usually pick these up at a basic automotive store, or marine center. Another thing that you are going to want to look at in the wiring harness is to make sure that the cable covers are on the cables so that they don't get caught. Once they enter the trailer frame they are pretty well protected through the steel. But it is a good idea to walk along the edge of the boat and wherever you see exposed wire to check it occasionally. This is just going to guarantee that the wires have not been cut, stripped and that the grounds are actually attached to where they should be. This is going to help the trailer operate properly and to keep you guy's safe on the road.
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