Tekonsha Voyager Brake Controller Installation on a 2000 Chevy Silverado or C/K 1500 Pickup

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please send me step by step on wiring my brakes with a voyeger break controler i have worked on it for a month and still have not got them working my lights and blinkers are fine its just the brakes i bought the pigtail for under the dash and my red wire is in the right top i put grd wire on batt got bl and red wires from under housing put red on closet stud ran bl to rear of truck and left post to back of controler i just dont know please help me thankyou

asked by: dwain f

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I will be happy to give you step by step instructions for installing the Tekonsha Voyager Brake Controller, # 39510 and # 3025-P, in your 2000 Chevy C/K 1500. Some of this may seem redundant, but if you look at it as if starting from scratch, it may be easier to pin point what the problem is. I have also included 3 videos and an FAQ to help guide you through the process. First, you can mount the brake controller and connect the harness to the electrical junction box in the cab to the left of the brake pedal. Plug in the harness on the top row, second from the left.

Under the hood, remove the bracket in the corner closest to the driver side and fuse box. Next, remove the cover of the accessory fuse block. Then remove the lower cover. You should see a Blue and Red wire next to the fuse block on the cab side. The blue wire has a plug and the red wire has a ring terminal.

Place the red wire over the nearest positive post (see the FAQ listed below, location B in the picture for step E). A Green 30 amp fuse is required in the spot closest to this post to power the brake controller.

Next, clip off the connector on the blue wire. At this point, you will also need a 4 and 7 Way Installation Kit, # ETBC7. The kit has a duplex cable with a gray housing and two wires in it. Attach the white wire in this cable to the blue wire from under the hood.

If you also need to add power to a 7-Way connector at the rear of the truck, you will need to connect the black wire from the duplex cable to the other positive post (closer to the front of the fuse block). A 40 amp fuse is needed in the spot closest to this post to power it. If this post in in use, you can connect the black wire directly to the battery via a 40 amp circuit breaker included in the ETBC7 kit.

With these connections made, route the duplex cable under the truck, to the rear of the vehicle and connect them to the 7-Way included in the ETBC7 kit. White attaches to blue and black attaches to black. If the truck has a 4-Way at the rear, plug it in to the back of the ETBC7 connector. Ground the white wire to the frame and attach the remaining wire to a reverse light wire on the truck if desired. If not, you can tape it up and stow it out of the way. At this point, installation would be complete.

If there is not trailer connector, the wires needed can be found above the spare tire. You will need to clip off the 4-Way from the back of the ETBC7 in order to hardwire the truck wires to the ETBC7 wires. The yellow wire on the truck is left turn and brake and will attach to the yellow wire on the ETBC7. The Dark Green wire on the truck is right turn and brake and will attach to the green wire on the ETBC7. The brown wire on the truck is for running lights and attaches to the brown wire on the ETBC7. The white wire on the truck is the ground and will attach to the white wire on the ETBC7.

If you cut the harness on the truck back a little more there will be two more wires. The light green one is for reverse lights and that can attach to the remaining wire on the ETBC7 if needed.