Truck to trailer wireing

[rz]

I have a Mitsubishi truck outfitted with a Uhaul wiring kit put on about 6 years ago. <br />Worked fine, but now only the tail lights for the trailer will light up.<br />No turn signals or warning lights.<br />Tested trailer lights with tester, they test fine.<br />The Uhaul trailer kit has a converter connecting it to the truck wires. Do I need another converter in order for the lights to work?<br />In other words, can I just buy a wire kit from the store and hook it up?

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Truck to trailer wireing

You said you tested trailer lights and they were ok.<br />Now test the plug at the truck to see if you have power there. ie: turn signals, brakes etc.<br /><br />Might just be a problem there.<br /><br />Make sure your tester has good ground and then check each one to see if you are getting power at the truck plug.<br /><br />If so, start checking wires on trailer for possible breaks in them.<br /><br />Remember, green and yellow will be your turn signal/brake light wires.

 

[bubbaboater]

Re: Truck to trailer wireing

Check for bad wires or dirty contacts on the plugs. Make sure the grounds are all good. I have had contacts on one end or the other of the plugs get dirty and not make contact.

 

[rz]

Re: Truck to trailer wireing

I tried splicing into wires with another connector and still got the same result.<br />This was on the converter side also.<br />I havn't had time, but I think I'll remove the u-haul set-up and see if a new harness will work. Thanks for the help...