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Old Jun 7, 2011 | 01:26 PM
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my brake lights dont work.

i bought simple utility trailer lights stop/turn/tail combos. wired up the turn signals and the tail lights, they work fine. i have 13.7v at the wires for the stop circuit, brake switch works fine. not sure wut to do at this point. the light only has 3 wires ground/tail/stop&turn are labeled as 1 wire. its weird my meter will read 12v on the wire but if i try to get it to light up anything it wont. there are 5 wires on the truck 3green 1red 1white. i hate being a douche' someone help the noob......
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Old Jun 7, 2011 | 03:59 PM
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To go to a four wire trailer plug you need an adapter. Literally a kit with a box and a trailer plug on the end. There is plug and play version that plugs in the tail light plugs.. Also a more generic version where you hack into wires with those crappy blue connectors.
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 05:37 AM
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im actually using the lights on the truck not a trailer. so i need a adapter to go from truck harness to the trailer lights?
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 06:15 AM
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So you are trying to wire up trailer lights as your brake/tail lights on your truck? Is that what is going on? How many bulbs are involved? Sure the bulbs are not blown?

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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by GotRox85
im actually using the lights on the truck not a trailer. so i need a adapter to go from truck harness to the trailer lights?
Yes.

Reason you need the trailer plug convertor is to separate out and re-combine the Toyota wire signals for the trailer lights you are using.
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Old Jun 10, 2011 | 07:05 AM
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thanks for the help guys i decides to go with a 36" led light bar. the kit had wiring instructions and man i looks good.
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Old Jun 10, 2011 | 05:48 PM
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the guy i got my truck did the same thing on his flatbed. he wired in 2 red stop/tail/turn lights, and 2 reverse lights and he really screwed it up. theres about 1,0000 splices and wires all hacked together. im actually in the process of re-wiring also, so ill look into the trailer adapter. that actually makes perfect semse.

thanks alot guys!!
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Old Jun 23, 2011 | 07:10 PM
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Hopkins is a decent brand of trailer converter adapter and free shipping over on Amazon.

But I would not mind seeing that light bar either.
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