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| Hey guys:
As many of you know, I am still down in AZ right now. I have had a problem for a couple years with my trailer wiring blowing the fuses in any truck that pulls the boat.
I need to get my trailer in and get it re-wired before my Canada trip. I don't have time when I get back to play with it before I head to Canada.
I am looking for recommendations on where to bring it. Nelson Marine in White Bear is the closest to my house as I live in Hugo. Anything in Forest Lake would be ok too.
I know it's going to cost me a couple hours labor to get it done, but I just want to be done with it.
Thanks - Midge |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Midge, what ever you do keep Cady away from it. Ha Ha Ha
Give Cady a kick for me if you see him. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | If you are in forest lake, you could try Hallberg marine too... It's not that much farther north...
Steve |
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Location: So. Illinois | Try giving your local U-Haul a call. My boss just got done getting his trailer wiring fixed and he got a much better price and better help from our local U-Haul rental shop. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I had that problem a couple yeasrs ago with my Gambler's trailer. It popped fuses on the running lights. Is yours a running light problem, or brake light?
My problem was found. Where the motor toter entered the back beam on the trailer, it had pinched a light wire within the trailer beam, grounding it out. There was just enough wire where I could clip and repair it; I moved it out of the way and secured it with a few squirts of expanding insulation foam.
Somewhere, you have hot going to ground. Hope you can fix it easy as I did, m |
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| Mikie:
Yes, it blows the running light fuses. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Yeah, that really blows! I had to finish a trip to Cave Run one night with my 4 way flashers on; got a weird look from one of Kentucky's finest on I-64.
Somewhere you have a hot wire that has rubbed to ground. Best of luck in finding it, though, can't help you there except now you know what color wire to trace. m
Oh, one quick tip that may help: you can take a 12 v battery charger and ground the black clip to your trailer. Put a roofing nail in the red + clip and use that as a power source to your trailer light plug. That way, you have a quick way of supplying power to the light harness without popping more fuses in the truck. Use it sparingly, though, don't want to cook the short, but if you light up the system and one side's out, that gives you a direction to search. m
Edited by mikie 4/30/2007 12:30 PM
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Location: Fishing the weeds | An old mechanics trick we used to use to find a short in trailer lights was to put a probe in the running light connection and hook that up to the battery charger and, look for smoke. Don't laugh, it works. It will tell right where the short is. Cut out the bad section and repair. Pat |
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Trailer Re-wiring Needed