Buddy of mine just bought a boat with a five pin flat trailer wiring harness. The trailer is equipped with electric surge brakes. As with most every vehicle in the world, his Ford F-150 is ready for a 4 pin flat or a 7 round. I was thinking rewiring the five into a 7 round end would be the easiest fix to this rather than screwing with his vehicle and then having it to do all over again when he trades or if someone else pulls that boat.
Now my question, I know the first four wires will be standard hookup, but I'm thinking that surge brake can't go in the #2 blue brake pin as that is meant for electronic controllers. I've heard they are sometimes rigged to the auxilary pin #7 as that's for back up lights, but I don't know if that's how his truck is rigged or if they all are that way or what...
I might have missed a guess, but here are the ones that I noted:
JerkinLips – March 27th, then April 7th
Brianf. – March 28th
Bobberwatcher – April….
MikeG3Boat – April 10th
SkunkedAgain – early April, then April 21st
Definitely a tough year for guesses, as it seemed to be a no-brainer early ice out. Then it got cold and snowed again.
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Buddy of mine just bought a boat with a five pin flat trailer wiring harness. The trailer is equipped with electric surge brakes. As with most every vehicle in the world, his Ford F-150 is ready for a 4 pin flat or a 7 round. I was thinking rewiring the five into a 7 round end would be the easiest fix to this rather than screwing with his vehicle and then having it to do all over again when he trades or if someone else pulls that boat.
Now my question, I know the first four wires will be standard hookup, but I'm thinking that surge brake can't go in the #2 blue brake pin as that is meant for electronic controllers. I've heard they are sometimes rigged to the auxilary pin #7 as that's for back up lights, but I don't know if that's how his truck is rigged or if they all are that way or what...
Any thoughts???
Thanks guys.
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