Wiring an Equipment Trailer
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2023
- Wiring a trailer is a tedious and time consuming task. Lets make a video about it...
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Parts
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Terminal Box (available through NAPA): www.truck-lite.com/50400-3.html
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Succeeded in making it interesting Wes, I just love these types of knowledge sharing videos. Just need a pickup and a trailer now 😉. But if I ever did I would know in a heart beat looking under it what to look out for now.
Thanks for the video from one of your patreons
wot we do in aus,,on some,,trailers.. if yur luky.. is,,the wires are ready sheathed.. any length.. 5 or 7 wires.. if your smart, you feed the wires thru a 1/2'' ish metal tube, in pieces, bent, to where you want it. so no chance of vibration chaffing..like the wraped wires on your good trailer.. more protection the better,,no one gives a sht about trailers.. used & abused.. . as little exposed wire as possible.. some trailers have the wires thru the chassis.. bit of a pain.. oh,,forgot,,first thing you do is tip trailer over,,or buy a hoist..easier job,more light..lol.
need to silly cone,,the wires thru steel..or sumthin.. just a thought,,dangerous,,,, a paint heat gun, $30. ish.. with the curly end of shrink gun fitted.. have to make to size.. 2c worth..
20:49 when u add butane to them damn lighter/torch things you gotta purge the thing let out extra air..
only want the liquid stuff in not the air..
"they have a tool" its a small brass tube 2"s long, But the end its blocked off on your side & has 2 little tiny holes on the sides like 3/4" up from the bottom,
so when u press that in the valve it dont shoot the air in your face cuz a little butane will be coming with it of course
Some people don't like wiring/computer stuff in videos, but I sure do. It's never boring and it's a skill you gotta know to work on a modern vehicle properly.
Me too
Not always fun but it's a needed knowledge
Yes. I’m 3m. Twisted sister
Flag day tomorrow 🇺🇸🏴☠️
Yes. The way that doesn't cause a fire.
Wes is keeping it real. Unlike other UA-cam channels that try to create almost daily content by finding something outrageous to post Wes shows us the real deal on running a one man shop. Never change Wes.
One week car repair, one week shop repair, one week machine tool repair, next week wiring trailers
The variety on your channel is amazing.
in the best way possible
It's really the best part about Wes' channel, just wait till we get some more heavy equipment repair in haha
That's the way it seems to work in real life...at least for me, and apparently Wes, too.
Yeah, i've done most all of that sort of stuff...still interesting to me at 75 years old...!! Might even learn something new.
That is what makes Wes' videos so interesting and keeps us coming back for more.
I thought to wire a trailer you just cut up an extension cord and some speaker wire and just wire-nut it all together...
That’s too fancy. You just need some Romex and twist the wires together with electrical tape.
@@WatchWesWork Don't forget the wire nuts!
Scotch tape works better and you want to change the color of wire every foot or so.
You missed a couple of ancient scotchloks that go nowhere
Edit: Whoop, posted that mere seconds before Wes found the scotchloks 🤣
Your pronunciation of the soldering salmon...😂 Wes, you are the absolute best! Your wiring diagrams are superceded only by your ability to make it happen.
I have found folks from Canada pronounce these words with the “L” included. “Hey der guy…!” 🇨🇦
¿Los soldados son peces? 😊
Wes, never worry that what you're doing won't be interesting to us. If you do any project, I'm watching because I never fail to learn at least five new insights and tricks.
Especially with Murphy's Law abounding! Wes you have successfully demonstrated why you should film something even though you think it to be uninteresting to your audience- yous never knows what might happen and where it might lead lol! And it doesn't matter what you are doing… we are here to watch you work because we enjoy doing so!
Case in point is Doug Demuro. He recently started adding different people to his car reviews, and the views have dropped. We watch youtubers because we like the person and the content, not just the content. Wes could work on anything because I enjoy his take on things.
I absolutely love Colonel Lincoln!
Okay, having rewired one of my trailers last week, because of an inoperative right brake light, (actually both, but my wife only told me about one) I can only see a few things you missed out on.
1. With 14 ga stranded wire, not stabbing your thumb with one while trying to insert it into a butt connector.
2. You didn't use "box store" quality "self snapping screws" since mine broke off flush with the fender (twice).
3. All of your work wasn't wasted by finding out after hooking to the truck that the actual problem was a broken pin where the "plug and play" 7 blade harness ties in to the truck wiring.
Other than that, wonderful.🤪
Thanks for the lunchtime entertainment, take care!
Yeah I've been there. Rewire the whole thing and find out it was a bad ground on the tow vehicle...
Witch!!! He said ground wire, light the torches.
Sorry could not resist.
I have used thousands of Tekscrews and the #1 reason for snapping one is trying to drill too fast at a bad angle. Be patient and screw straight. (with a good drill) The thicker the material, the more gentle you have to be.
@@WatchWesWork That's the automotive equivalent of rewiring a whole room only to find the ceiling light quit working because of a blown light bulb. The rewire was badly needed though, so definitely no waste of time.
Hi Wes. You're way too young to have experienced RV trailer wiring prior to 1970(ish), where every manufacturer used their own wire colors, and the cheapest fixtures possible. Add in then the yearly wiring fixes with whatever color wire Dad had, and it was a major league nightmare. The best had to be us fixing the wiring on the horse trailer, all worked fine the night before, but when we did a light check the next morning, when turning on the turn signals, all the lights flashed.😮
"Good thing about standards is there are so many to choose from" Priceless!!!
That got me 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I now need to go clean my keyboard plus the screen from the spilled coffee
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"Actually our company uses a unique proprietary standard..."
And, now, some day, in some shop next to a corn field a mechanic will be spoiled for having an excellent wiring harness to work upon.
Thinking about the next guy is tough, but has benefits.
The next guy is often you! (a lifelong computer programmer speaks...)
I was fortunate enough to work 38 years at the same shop. The majority of our customers were repeat. Many were the kids and grandkids of customers. Most of the time, the 'next mechanic' was me!
Twenty five years ago I worked for a big crane company and we had about a hundred trailers. Drivers kept coming in with tickets and bad inspections constantly. I volunteered to be the trailer guy for six months and slowly worked my way through the fleet. I did three big junction boxes and went to all sealed lights and standardized everything. Every light had its own ground as well. I don’t know how many hundreds of Scotch locks I removed. Those were the days without maxi brakes and self adjusting slack adjusters. Seems like once a month a driver knocked the fence over while trying to hook up a trailer since the brakes had released without air in the system. 😂😂
Were any of the scotch locks filled with dielectric grease?
@@TheAbyss79 all of em, that's why they couldn't conduct electricity
Any more this world lacks people with that sort of initiative! 👍
LOL
@@TheAbyss79 I hope so. That way if the scotchlok connector didn't prevent the flow of electricity, the dielectric grease
I see a Wes video - I am there. Love the attention to detail. Diagnosing by looking at wire charts is a lost art. I could watch these vids all day.
More accurate to state it was a never learned art.
I personally like as much variety in video content as possible. So i was perfectly happy to watch you do wiring. It's more than just the work - it's the info about what was wrong with the previous setup, the discussion of ideal equipment to select, the ideas shown about layout, etc. Great video.
Finally someone uses the guard on the anglegrinder on UA-cam. Thank you!
What a refreshing thing to see, a guard on a grinder on UA-cam
If you don't want to crimp several wires together, you can use terminal blocks like that circular one up front. They sell jumpers to turn them into bus bars. Just put them into an enclosure like a bar soap travel case :-) Blue Sea makes some nice marine bus bars with protective covers. Another option I've used is ring terminals and then join the wires together with a machine screw and nut. The screw is effectively a post. Just use a short screw so you can get heat shrink over it.
bar soap travel cases are not weather proof, and thus pointless on a vehicle
Omg, I love the drawing. Put it in a sealed document protector and stick it somewhere on the trailer. Then mass produce those for sale. I'd buy one.
What I prefer to use instead of split loom is clear vinyl hose. Cut a split down the side with a hook blade, stuff your wires in then wrap with tape. Looks clean and it's very abrasion resistant, and as close to waterproof as one can get, especially compared to flimsy split loom. I even ended up using a kind of deburring tool on the ends where the harness came to a plug to create a beveled approach to the plug.
What about UV resistance?
Your relentless "Trolling of Pedants" is in part why I love your channel.
Good to hear your Spring birdies are as loud and happy as mine.
They are in EVERYTHING! The gutters, the soffets, the tractor, every bush and tree on the property, all full of nests. I have rescued two full grown birds from the downspouts the year.
You should absolutely do a full run down on your "shop supplies" connectors, adhesives, specialty tools, chemicals, and disposables that you regularly use. Maybe even the second channel, but would totally be worth a watch and explanation for each supply.
As an Englishman and of course, pedant, it gives me great pleasure to hear you pronounce "solder" with the hard L. It gives me even greater pleasure to be trolled by you with that rather good play on words. Hats off to you Wes.
"So many to choose from" you hit the nail on the head there. A great video and perfect description!
Thanks for the info on the 3M standard vs high temp connectors, Wes. I was not aware of the steel construction (I don’t use the high temp versions but it’s good to know the details).
I had to use a few hundred before I figured it out.
Wes, for an auto mechanic you're a damn good electronics technician. Your ability to troubleshoot electronic faults is impressive and your wiring/installation skills would pass the most rigid inspection. Good work mate!
Due in part to his previous life of maintaining CNC mahinery.
He is an engineer folks...
8 out of 10 people would have thrown that heat gun away. Me and you are the remaining two. Good job keeping it out of the dump!
That is a _disturbingly_ expensive heat gun. Like... a couple hundred bucks.
Colonel Lincoln...very clever. You're a technician, a gentleman, and a scholar.
I literally just pulled all the wires off my boat trailer to start fresh when this video pops up as I begin to search for a good video from a pro to learn some tricks and get the neatest runs
I have built many trailers, I tack weld a length of 1'' conduit from near the pintle to half way along and another piece from there to the back, a piece to each side and a 'rubbolite' junction box in the front, centre and rear. All the cable is double insulated 7 core trailer wire, the normal for UK. The cable from the towing vehicle to the trailer has a plug and socket on each end, they get trapped and damaged sometimes, easy to replace when its just a plug in piece. Not cheap but lasts for years and very robust. Do it once.
I’m interested in EVERYTHING you do. I’ve learned so much from your channel.
You demonstrated perfectly why people hate those wheels as you tried to explain how easy they are to work with. I couldn't help but LOL.
As a guy who works on generators for a living videos like this are a treat. Creating systems from scratch is a common occurrence, and your standards for protecting wiring became mine some time ago. I also appreciated how you made up diagrams and planned it out instead of just running each circuit individually until you were done. Thank you for this content.
The Soldering Salmon is freaking brilliant. I have to have the sticker.
"The good thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from" is a sticker I would buy.
I have used 3M super 33 tape for 35+ years. It's the best. I started using it in the Navy in 1986. I use it every day on my job as an industrial electrician. I've always used it and I always will. Even at home. There is a thicker 3M electrical tape that is super 88 I think. It is also good but if you double wrap super 33 it's pretty much the same thing.
I once wrapped a 4-pin relay in electrical tape, as soon as I turned the power on it switched through, no matter of the state of the signal switch, turned out, the glue on the tape was conducting, wrapped each post of the relay individually and it worked as it should...
Did anyone experienced something like that, too?
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@@horstszibulski19 Artie Johnson says ''veddy interesting''.
I can honestly say that when I first figured out that RV and Automotive 7 pin connectors used different colors for the different functions, I ended up with a headache because of how hard I was overthinking everything. I honestly thought it was just one standard color code.
Seeing Max, the German Shorthair, always makes my day. 👍
In the EU we have two different style trailer electric connectors for small vehicles with towing capacity up to 3500kg (~7000lbs). The two connector are the 7 and the 13 pin one and we don't even have electric brakes (ours are mechanical).
WTF are you doing with 13 pins?
@@WatchWesWork
1 Left-Hand Turn
2 Rear Fog Light
3 Ground (Pins 1 to 8)
4 Right-Hand Turn
5 Rear Lamps (R), Clearance and Side Marker Lamps
6 Stop Lamps
7 Rear Lamps (L), Clearance and Side Marker Lamps
8 Reversing Signal
9 Power Suppler (Bat. +)
10 Power Supply (Ign,+)
11 Ground (Bat. +)
12 Spare
13 Ground (Ign. +)
@@WatchWesWork If you really want to be driven mad, check out Australia's trailer plugs -- 8 of them in fact (9 if you count truck trailer wiring)! Even better two of them are actually the same plug/socket, with either 5 wires or 7 wires -- but the wiring isn't compatible between the two!
@@WatchWesWork Just for clarification if my first post was unclear. The vehicle only has one connector installed (either the older 7 pin according to ISO 1724, or the newer 13 pin according to ISO 11446).
If the trailer and the vehicle don't have the same connector there are adapters to convert the connectors in either way.
I believe the main difference that here the turn signals are mandatory yellow therefore they need additional pins.
So the tail lamps (R and L), the turns signals, brake light and the ground alone need 6 pins (the pins used in the 7 pin connector).
The additional pins for the rear fog light, reversing lamp, an ignition switched 12V, a permanent 12V and two more grounds (total 6 more pins).
These are 12 pins used in the 13 pin connector.
The heavy duty vehicles and trailers use different connectors (one 15 pin for the general stuff + CAN, a second 7 pin connector (different from the one used for small trailers) for the ABS/EBS) and the two air lines.
(I excluded the uncommon or obsolete connectors here and the list for heavy duty trailers may not be complete.)
Nice work Wes ! Never seen a trailer wired the right way !
Me either and I worked as a salesman for a utility trailer manufacturer!
@@wayner806 don’t have your experience Sir ! But have towed 1000 of them and always had some wiring or elec brake issue !
Nice to see someone who is committed to doing things right. I tried to educate my grandson on using crimp connectors with sealant inside. I'm pretty sure he simply used regular connectors and wrapped them in electrical tape. By the way, there is a guy who worked for a company that researched various ways of connecting wiring. This may have been a military research project. They concluded that a properly made crimp connection is superior. They also said that crimping and soldering isn't the best idea. One reason given was if the joint gets heated up, the solder can melt and the connection can fail. Depends on the application though. The power cord for an electronic device often uses crimp connectors but all other internal connections are soldered. Anyway, it was interesting to see how someone else does things. Great job.
Coming from an electronics background I was sworn to solder everything. Anything else was just half-ass. Then I moved to the marine world. Now it's all crimps. In fact, the USCG specs frown on solder as it can work harden and fail in a high vibration environment. Mostly I use heat shrink crimps but on larger stuff it's bare terminals with adhesive heat shrink. I still have my soldering irons but rarely use them anymore; only on more delicate stuff electronics and small gauge wire like 22 or such.
@@donhappel9566 Thanks for the input. Solder does age and crack. Didn't realize it was work hardening.
The Soldering Salmon! Oh I WANT an iron on patch!!!
I was luckky, shop near here that builds trailers. Super nice guy, went for parts to add electric brakes to my box trailer. He took me on a whole tour of the place, spent a good hour with me. Ended up with everything I needed plus a sealed wiring harness. Never knew such a thing existed. Mine was just wires pushed through larger rubber hose. Not a single wiring problem since I did the work about 8 years ago. Well aside from some of the light assemblies which I changed to all LED.
I always end up looking like a Dalmatian whenever I break out the gooey black Liquid Electrical Tape. :)
That's Type A Nichrome wire in the Weller. I bought two bad ones at a flea market..ended up winding my own nichrome coil on my lathe and installing it. Been working fine for 7 years now.
Interesting. I wonder why they chose to use such fine wire instead of a shorter length of larger wire. Maybe it doesn't work that way.
@@WatchWesWork I think that resistance is inversely proportional to diameter; and inversely proportional to the length.
If they used a heavier gauge wire, then they'd also need to coil up a much length of if to have the same resistance value (and heat output).
Significantly decreasing the heater's resistance will significantly increase the temperature _of every part in that circuit._ -Especially- (edit:) _Particularly_ the connections and switch contacts.
I can't stop you if you want to make a handheld electric lighter; I know that I've done so with enough of the cheapest 80-ish watt irons that people borrowing (unannounced) while they were still making the familiar _sounds_ / *noises* of -self-destruction- 'heavy wear and use' -ceased to be- stopped being a problem.
I gotta have a Colonel Lincoln T-Shirt!
You have some very generous viewers.
3M makes 86 kinds of electrical tape.
I am amazed at your expertise in so many areas. Electrical, Electronics, Automotive, Truck, Heavy Equipment, not to mention fabrication and building maintenance and repair. I’ll bet you can also drive any vehicle out there. Genius.
Here in Europe, rubber grommets are always used when passing wiring through metal.
Heh. Not here. Though they should be.
I did notice the lack of rubber grommets too. Thought it a bit strange.
Both of these trailer episodes have been totally interesting to watch. Keep up the good work Wes 👍🏻👍🏻😁
Never sell yourself short, Wes! You are one of the most talented ratchet jockeys I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know, either virtually or in meatspace. Would that you could learn how to pronounce “solder” correctly. Oh, wait -- you do.
Wiring videos are fun, especially when the heavy crimper comes out.
A terminal block might be a better option to connect multiple wires. Great job Wes!
Colonel Licoln the soldering salmon. That's exactly why I love your channel!
When I was a forklift mechanic in Louisiana, I worked on a lot of freezer trucks that would get water intrusion. Instead of liquid electrical tape use dielectric grease, then seal it under heat shrink. First time poster longtime watcher.
Hmm. That works!
Wiring is an artform. You are an artist. 😆+1 for going after the pedants!
Wiring is so important! ❤❤❤
The mascot is fantastic. Excellent. Fantastic. Really fun.
i felt like i was getting a lesson on indicating a part in a 4 jaw chuck when you aligned that that wheel
A master class in how to do wiring correctly.
Wes, up North in the mines in permafrost (Arctic Circle), as we used massive quantities of calcium chloride water solution, to prevent freezing drill water, we would replace the wiring harnesses by running the new harnesses inside air lines through larger gland connectors, into large sealed plastic enclosures. Yes it is bulky, but it works.
When a wire end would get green disease, we would pull the wire out, blow a small braided nylon line with a puff ball on the end through, pull the replacement wires back through terminate and done.
The only bad part was the DDEC modules, well we sure had to replace a crap ton of them, due to corrosion.😱😎
Best wishes from Northern Manitoba.
How do you make the actual connections? Is a cord run out of the box?
@@WatchWesWork In some cases sub boxes, in others a gland nut squeezing down on a type of non-hardening petroleum based sealant (body shop types called it dum-dum), around the wires coming out. When corrosion got to bad at the end, new gland nut and pull new wires through.
It was not a cheap way to do things, it worked. Otherwise we would have equipment down as the mechanics had to chase crumbling wires throughout. Generally the wiring got replaced at the first engine changeout, which would happen sooner than you think, as the equipment was only shutdown for shift change (enough time to let the blast smoke clear), refuel and go. 365 days of the year.
Don't get caught up on content, remember your a mechanic and a teacher. Thanks
Just brilliant Wes, I wonder how many people picked up on your comment at 3:50 about having so many standards to choose from😂😂. I thought that was pretty clever. There’s something about trailer wiring I don’t quite understand, in the old days when mains wiring and extension leads used red, green and black, black was the neutral. In the automotive field red is positive and black is negative but on trailers the black wire is for reverse lights and white is the negative wire! Like that makes sense. It’s the same here in Australia so it must be a world standard😂. Cheers mate, Stuart 🇦🇺
I watch all your videos because you try to do things right. Far too many people don't care enough to do that nowadays.
Just for fun you could try making a mold on the printer and shooting it full of some goo to make a fancy sealed connection.
I want to try it. I just need to figure out what kind of goo.
@@WatchWesWork e6000 urethane glue?
@@WatchWesWorksilicone caulking has worked for me.
Nice job. Been using the Scotch 33+ tape for over 60 yrs, will not use anything else. Once patched a pinhole in a radiator hose with it, lasted until the new one was ordered and came in, couple of weeks or so.
Self snapping screw. I love Wes humor. ❤️
I'm a wiring nerd so I really enjoy anytime you wire anything up.
I was in a rush to move some equipment and wound up buying a shop-built car-carrier trailer with mis-matched mobile-home wheels. Decided to throw more good money after bad and replaced springs/axles/wheels/wiring all at once. Used a forklift to flip the whole thing upside down for easier access (mostly for the welding, but it made the wiring a lot easier too).
Wes - Excellent video once again. I agree that videos about wiring can be boring but not this one! For me, it's all about the little tips and tricks along the way and your explanation of why you things the way you do. Trailer wiring is, by definition, one of the most troublesome aspects of owning or using a trailer. I think I can count the number of times that I've attempted to hook up to a trailer where there were no wiring issues on the stump of my left hand.
Also, out of curiosity, at 30:04, what is the piece of equipment to the right of Max as he walks by? It looks like a motor for something but I can't place it. Lathe headstock? Camelback drill? Hobart mixer? The viewers (probably just me) want to know!
It's the motor unit for my Hobart meat grinder. It weighs about as much as I do, so it doesn't get moved very far.
@@WatchWesWork So close! Keep up the great work!
You are the first youtuber I have ever seen use a heat gun to heat shrink. After 3 decades in the airforce I would never be without a heat gun. A tip to keep it running forever, never shut it off in high heat setting, Let it run for a bit in lo setting to cool the element. It will last almost forever then.
Consider using the element cool down setting on your Weller gun. I have the predessessor made by Ungar, and doing so was recommended in the instructions. Mine is still giving good service-
Yeah Weller says 30 seconds. Sometimes I get in a hurry...
10 seconds in and I say I would bet you can and will make an interesting video about trailer wiring. And I am sure we will all learn something too!!
Thanks for sharing your talents and adventures!!!
Old garden hose is a perfect conduit for trailers.
A garden hose is not going to last long due to the type of rubber that they are made out of. It will become cracked and brittle after a few years at most. I have seen some become sticky and hard after ~6 months of heat exposure.
And yet you managed to make a video on wiring that was both informative and entertaining. As always.
I think you could make a video how you tie your boots and it would still be interesting and worth to watch...
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Here in Germany you have to bring back all lighting from the car's rear to the rear of the trailer, including fog lights and backup lights. And the car's fog lights have to be disabled when the trailer plug is inserted...no wonder we use 13-pin plugs these days...
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Thx for showing, nice job!
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30:05 Wes, you can't beat the entertainment. Wish I could see more of your family and of course Max.
Thanks for the tip on double folding on the wire ends. I do a lot of wiring for my model train layout and that helps. 👍
Wes, always good to see how it's done right rather than later on its done in,regards from Scotland 🏴🇬🇧
This was a timely video for me, I have to rewire my trailer. I appreciate your sharing your procedure. Did not find boring at all!
OMG.. That electrical mascot / inspector.. so good! stick the screws to those experts!🤣
Very nice repair. It is always interesting to see what you are working on. Thanks for the video and the lessons.
When I wired mine I put 4 of the black 7 terminal boxes in 1 in the tongue 1 at left side axle 1 at rear and 1 at right side axle so all terminals were inside a box took forever but it works good
That would work. I've seen semi trailer with one at front and one at the back.
I truly need a sticker or something that says "The good thing about standards, is there are so many to choose from." I work in IT and this is incredibly relatable.
I enjoy the wiring vids. I’m trying to swap engines on an old Scag mower. Wiring is a nightmare, but ready to dive in. Keep up the variety in your vids, Wes.
I love using good electrical tape. It’s so soft.
Also I love those rims. I have 8 trailers I use for business and they all have those. It allows me to just keep a spare in the 4 truck beds and any rim can go on any trailer.
I agree, standards are great, especially when there are multiple standards for one thing. 😵💫
Nicely done wiring! Neat and professional looking.
The funniest part of trolling pedants are the pedantic replies. Maybe trolling isn’t the right word either. It’s really more like chumming. Thanks for this and all the other great videos Colonel Lincoln. You are an entertaining renaissance man.
I absolutely love the sticker. Very funny :)
It's always pleasant and educative to see good job made by a meticulous, well-equipped guy (your hub dust cap remover blew my mind last time, I didn't even know this kind of tool existed :D )
nice and neat job you did there! Nothing wrong with a video about wiring a trailer ;)
I really like the way you take pride in your work and do things the right way! Rainman disappoints me with some of his content. LOL
When I rewired all our trailers I made all the joins as ring terminals on posts inside sealed aluminium boxes, but I suspect the difference to a splice (when done properly like Wes' showed here) is minimal. I also opted for sealed LED lights, and NO chassis grounds -- every return path is via a loomed wire all the way back to the plug. Oh, and big thick wires all run in heavy duty non-split conduit.
I first started using this technique when I was working in a hydraulic shop 🤔, and I completely rewired a piece of equipment that was in for major hydraulic repairs. Took 6 working days, cost the customer $7K. He must have been happy with my work, because less than a month later I found myself re-wiring all his other equipment, and continued doing nothing else until I had re-wired it all!
No good deed goes unpunished.
I've used super 33 and super 88 and they are definitely quality, but sometimes I find self amalgamating tape is the shiz. Never had to warranty my work though.
I've never tried that.
I rewired my utility trailer with a new harness and lights. I soldered every connection and used heat shrink. A few months later, the wiring started failing, in places where it was fully supported. After a few repairs, I bought enough wire to rewire it again. During that process, I learned where I went wrong. I was using acid core solder, which destroyed the wiring. The solder was not marked, and I didn’t know it was acid core.
That'll do it. Crappy lesson to learn the hard way!
Another great video with a lot of good information. Also I really enjoyed the soldering salmon. My wife is a school teacher, and my oldest daughter is an english professor at Boston college. They ride me like a rented mule. Sometimes they drive me crazy being pedantic, so I have fun miss spelling my texts and emails to them.
Love your work. The only thing we do differant here in Idaho logging country is run aground from the plug to every light. With all the crapy they put on the roads, it corrodes the grounds screwed to frame. 3M connectors are the worst thing ever made as you say and 3M electrical tape is the only tape worth buying. Great work
Time well spent up front will save future problems on the back side. It doesn’t have to be NASA standard, but your connections are good, better than most.
Well it looks like you succeeded, it was not as boring as I thought it would be. Would have watched anyway.
The intro was Outstanding! Thanks for covering this!
Looking forward to the Colonel Lincoln stickers!