Hopkins Endurance 5th Wheel/Gooseneck 90-Degree Wiring Harness with 7-Pole Plug

Video Transcript for Hopkins Custom Fit Vehicle Wiring - Fifth Wheel and Gooseneck Wiring - HM40147 Review

Speaker 1: Today we're going to take a look at the Hopkins Endurance fifth wheel and gooseneck 90 degree wiring harness with the seven way plug. Now this is a custom fit part. It is designed to fit the 1997 to 2004 Ford F-150 and the F-250 light duty trucks with the factory seven way, and on any custom fit part I always like to recommend for you to go to our website, use our fit guide, put in your year and model vehicle, and it'll show if this will work for your application. Now this harness will provide the seven way blade style connector in your truck bed for a hassle free hook up of your fifth wheel or gooseneck trailers. The connector head on the harness is designed, as you can see, with a 90 degree angle, so it'll fit into tight spaces in your truck bed side rails. On the seven way connector, the lid on it is a nice durable lid with an oversized hinge, opens 180 degrees for an easy connection.When you do install this harness, it will allow you to retain the use of the factory seven way connector at the rear of your truck.

This does install very quickly and easily. There's no cutting or splicing required. Basically what you'll do is take this T-connector portion, plug this into the factory wiring harness, and also into the vehicle's factory installed seven way connector at the back of your truck. Then you'll have a ground wire here with an islet on it. That you want to connect to a good clean ground.

Then you run this 10 foot long wiring harness from the bumper all the way up to the truck bed, take it up to the side, and you'll have this installed in your truck bed. All you have to do is just line it up and plug it right in, and then your seven way will be all ready to go.If you notice also, on the seven way they do have enhanced weather proofing. It has this internal seal right up here so when the lid closes, it'll protect those terminals from any damage or any elements. The terminals are corrosion resistant, and they do use a rubber coated copper wiring. The seven way itself is constructed of extremely durable ABS plastic, and it does require a two and one-eighths inch diameter hole to be drilled in your truck bed for this to install in.

That does include everything shown here. The harness, the seven way, and includes the four self tapping screws to install this into your truck bed, some nylon ties to take up any slack in the wiring, nice set of detailed instructions and even a couple packets of dielectric grease or terminal grease. That grease you want to use anytime you plug in any connectors. You put some grease on it before you plug them together. Neck grease will help protect it for any rust or corrosion.

Again, the specs on this, the harness length is 10 feet. The wire gauge is in this harness. The purple, green, yellow and brown wires are 16 gauge, and the blue, red and white wires are 12-gauge.That should do it for the review on the Hopkins Endurance fifth wheel and gooseneck 90 degree wiring harness, with the seven way plug.