Trailer Wiring and Light Replacement Demonstration Video

If your Ram has the under-bed heavy-duty towing option, there will be a series of mounting holes or pucks in the bed of your truck, most likely covered by rubber or plastic plugs. If your truck is equipped with the pucks, you can use either an…

If the Roadmaster InvisiBrake Supplemental Braking System #RM-8700 brake signal alert was functioning correctly until just recently then the issue is most likely going to be some sort of wiring damage/wear. The ground would be a great place to start…

Wiring the grounds for your tail lights and the 35 ft. Wishbone 4-Way Trailer Wiring Harness with 42 inch Ground Wire, item #A35W42B, is fairly simple. The 42 inch ground wire provided with the harness is normally attached to the trailer frame near…

While there isn't a life expectancy, per se, of the shocks on the Yakima Rack and Roll Trailer - 66" #Y08106 and 78" #Y08107, upgrading to the HD shocks is absolutely a good idea if your gear weighs around 200 llbs and certainly…

I went out to the warehouse and pulled a 35 ft. Wishbone 4-Way Trailer Wiring Harness, #A35W42B, and used a wire gauge tool to measure the wires. The copper wire itself is 20 gauge. If you measure the wire with the insulation on it then it is thicker…

It sounds like you have a trailer taillight that grounds through the mounting hardware. Typically the red wire would run to the turn signal/stop light circuit and the black would run to the taillight circuit, and then the ground circuit would be…

There are several items you might want to try using for removal of corrosion in your 7-way trailer connector, like part #HM48480. White Vinegar A wedge shaped, slip on pencil eraser or art gum eraser Pipe cleaners PB Blaster If the corrosion is…

You can install a 7 way connector on your 2019 Ford F-150 by using the Curt T-Connector #C56413, which will plug into the factory supplied 4 way connector plug on your vehicle and give you a fully functioning 7 way connector. If you've got a…

For your 2015 Jeep Patriot, I recommend the Draw-Tite Class III Max Frame Receiver Hitch #75712. This hitch is custom-fit for your Jeep, meaning there will be no drilling required during installation. This hitch will give you a 2 inch receiver…

Yakima changed the lights on the Rack and Roll trailers to LED lights in October of 2010 so I can confirm that the replacement marker light, #8880185, is an LED light.

It sounds like your trailer had a wishbone harness and/or could have multiple ground wires. On a 4-Way trailer end, the one covered pin is the ground. Next to that is the running light pin. The running light pin on some connectors will have more than…

The way that the 35 foot Wishbone 4-Way Trailer Wiring Harness, #A35W42B, works is instead of having 1 taillight wire (brown) that you would need to splice into in order to run to both taillights, this harness has two wires (one attached to each…