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Re: Trailer wiring on 2006 Tacoma
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:07:19 GMT, Bruce L. Bergman
<blPYTHONbergman@earthlink.invalid> wrote:
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> Check the grounds on the trailer tail light assemblies to the steel
>trailer chassis, and the ground wire from the trailer tongue steel,
>through the trailer connector to the truck body is continuous and
>solid - make sure there's a good ground path the whole way.[/color]
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> When there is a bad ground on a dual-filament lamp, you apply power
>to the stop lights and it can't go to ground, so it goes through the
>tail filament, to the other lamps, and finds it's way to ground.
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> If the whole trailer isn't grounded right the same thing happens,
>but it's not isolated to one fixture - all the lights act screwy.
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> --<< Bruce >>--[/color]
The grounds are connected to the steel chassis, but it is rusty. I'll
clean all that up and see if it helps. Could be part or all of the
problem.
Thanks
Jaminn aka Don Williams
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