This was the easiest video to understand of all my UA-cam searches! Detailed, straight to the point and easy to understand. THANK YOU! I’ve never wired a horse trailer before and this got me through it with success.
Your video made me confident enough to go pick my trailer back up from the shop to do it myself. Thank you! I was looking at at $500.00 repair to rewire my trailer. Thanks for the save and the video
That’s awesome to hear. I am glad you were able to DIY and save some $. It is good to hear that my videos help someone. Thank you for watching and I hope it turned out like you hoped!
@@FishHuntCookTinker I greatly appreciated you and your video. My children and I didna great job and the rewiring of my 3 horse slant was simple. Kids live being under the trailer. I did the layout of the wires. We did the work like the pros would. I had them watch your video too. So anybody can do this! Thanks so much again for the motivation 😊
By God I greatly appreciate you and your ability to not only explain each process, but also the wire diagram, wire coloring, marker placement, rivets and everything in between. I'm restoring my 2 horse that's almost identical as yours, I bought mine without any wiring or covers. Mine doesn't have brakes either so that was good info for me also. I'm getting ready to paint her before I install wiring or floors, I am going to be installing a upper back light bar and inside lights, 2 inside small osculation fans and a audio/video camera that will connect to my trucks dash monitor just so I can keep an eye on the horses during the haul. Not one other tutorial on YT explained or helped me out! I'm not a dumb bunny but up until 3 years ago I didn't know anything about trucks or trailers except how to put gas in the tank or how to pay for it at best.. as a much needed personal therapy for depression after the loss of my sister, daddy, daughter and son, plus recently divorced my fault entirely and no blame on him, I woke up walked outside took a deep breath, saw both trailer and my old 98 GMC k2500 4x4 just sitting there unused for over a year.. so I googled, You tubed to get the truck started and it took off from there.. I had bought the trailer to restore for small shows and vet runs..so now going on my 3rd year and working on weekends, I am proud of me, still sad on days but greatfull for people like you and your shared knowledge to old woman like myself that wanna learn and wanna do the unknown and finally figures out they CAN. If I tear it up! Hey it can be fixed or scrapped! After all I worked, paid for it and hold the titles! Lol.. you get my point.. anyway thanks again... You don't know how much your knowledge was worth to me..
I am very glad my video helped you. It is awesome that you are learning to fix things yourself. Most of my friends and family give me a hard time for always working on stuff. I have so many projects I can barely keep up. They say I should enjoy the weekend and rest. To me there are not many things as rewarding and therapeutic as fixing something old or broken. When you are deep in a project you are excited about your mind is focused on one thing. I am sorry for the hard things you have had to deal with, but it is great to hear your story.
Dude you just saved me some money. I have a 1973 stock horse trailer. The marker lights need rewired. The rest of the light are good. So I can do that work myself. Coolness ! I also need to raise the the horse head area of my trailer. There is a half moon welded plate in the trailer roof In this area. If removed it should be pretty easy from a body shop to add another 12" to this area. I am going to have the shop replace the bearings, brakes, control arm, tie rods, leaf springs etc. New tires too.. Once all that is done I will have it repainted.
One ground is all you need. From the plug to any clean metal on the trailer frame. The metal trailer is one big ground. Anywhere on the trailer that is metal will be a ground for your lights. All the wires you run to your lights are positive voltage. Each light will have its own ground that just ties to any metal on the trailer. In the instance of the clearance lights. There is no actual ground wire. They get their ground from the screws or rivets you use to mount them. It is important to make sure the holes you use to rivet them or screw them on are clean metal. I believe you can see in the video the ground strap inside the clearance lights. One side has a metal strap where the mounting hole is. The other is just plastic. This metal strap goes to the light bulb to provide ground or negative. The only time you would need a wire for ground is if you were mounting the light on wood. For whatever reason. In this case you would have to run a wire from the metal strap on the clearance light to any metal on the trailer. I hope this makes sense and helps. Thank you for watching!
It’s hard to say honestly. I don’t remember ever taking a voltage reading on my truck and trailer lights. As long as you have 12v you should be good. Most newer trucks probably have voltage regulators that only allow 12v to lighting circuits. That way the circuit can not be over loaded by the alternator. Thanks for watching hope that helps!
I used 4”. I was going to put a link in the description. Apparently I got some that were discontinued from Walmart. I could not find them online or a link. Thank you for watching!
Have you seen how expensive real anvils are? I couldn’t justify a good one. I use it to beat random things more than make knives. If I get more in-depth into knife making I’ll get a good one. Thanks for watching!
@@FishHuntCookTinker I keep a ball bearing in my pocket all the time in case I come across a decent one at a random yard sale. Yeah they are ridiculous expensive. Lucky for me I inherited from Papaw and Dad a couple nice ones. As a farrier I can't get by with a bad one.
This was the easiest video to understand of all my UA-cam searches! Detailed, straight to the point and easy to understand. THANK YOU! I’ve never wired a horse trailer before and this got me through it with success.
I am glad it helped and you were able to do it successfully. Thank you for watching!
Did you have to add two ground wires to the frame in order to get your clearance lights to work. If not how did you get them to work on both side??
Your video made me confident enough to go pick my trailer back up from the shop to do it myself. Thank you! I was looking at at $500.00 repair to rewire my trailer. Thanks for the save and the video
That’s awesome to hear. I am glad you were able to DIY and save some $. It is good to hear that my videos help someone. Thank you for watching and I hope it turned out like you hoped!
@@FishHuntCookTinker I greatly appreciated you and your video. My children and I didna great job and the rewiring of my 3 horse slant was simple. Kids live being under the trailer. I did the layout of the wires. We did the work like the pros would. I had them watch your video too. So anybody can do this! Thanks so much again for the motivation 😊
That is awesome. I love to hear you got the kids involved! My daughter helped a lot fixing ours up. Mostly on the painting though.
@@FishHuntCookTinker 👊 Great Job! Builds confidence in kids and that they can do anything they pit their minds too! Keep the Great videos coming😊
This was soooo helpful!! Thanks for all the explanation and including your troubleshooting!! 🎉
By God I greatly appreciate you and your ability to not only explain each process, but also the wire diagram, wire coloring, marker placement, rivets and everything in between. I'm restoring my 2 horse that's almost identical as yours, I bought mine without any wiring or covers. Mine doesn't have brakes either so that was good info for me also. I'm getting ready to paint her before I install wiring or floors, I am going to be installing a upper back light bar and inside lights, 2 inside small osculation fans and a audio/video camera that will connect to my trucks dash monitor just so I can keep an eye on the horses during the haul. Not one other tutorial on YT explained or helped me out! I'm not a dumb bunny but up until 3 years ago I didn't know anything about trucks or trailers except how to put gas in the tank or how to pay for it at best.. as a much needed personal therapy for depression after the loss of my sister, daddy, daughter and son, plus recently divorced my fault entirely and no blame on him, I woke up walked outside took a deep breath, saw both trailer and my old 98 GMC k2500 4x4 just sitting there unused for over a year.. so I googled,
You tubed to get the truck started and it took off from there.. I had bought the trailer to restore for small shows and vet runs..so now going on my 3rd year and working on weekends, I am proud of me, still sad on days but greatfull for people like you and your shared knowledge to old woman like myself that wanna learn and wanna do the unknown and finally figures out they CAN. If I tear it up! Hey it can be fixed or scrapped! After all I worked, paid for it and hold the titles! Lol.. you get my point.. anyway thanks again... You don't know how much your knowledge was worth to me..
I am very glad my video helped you. It is awesome that you are learning to fix things yourself. Most of my friends and family give me a hard time for always working on stuff. I have so many projects I can barely keep up. They say I should enjoy the weekend and rest. To me there are not many things as rewarding and therapeutic as fixing something old or broken. When you are deep in a project you are excited about your mind is focused on one thing. I am sorry for the hard things you have had to deal with, but it is great to hear your story.
Thank you so much, that helped me tremendously get lights on our 1971 trailer
I am glad to help. I enjoy hearing others found my videos helpful on their projects. Thank you for watching!
Good information right there. In way to be patient when talking about it.
Dude you just saved me some money. I have a 1973 stock horse trailer. The marker lights need rewired. The rest of the light are good. So I can do that work myself. Coolness ! I also need to raise the the horse head area of my trailer. There is a half moon welded plate in the trailer roof In this area. If removed it should be pretty easy from a body shop to add another 12" to this area. I am going to have the shop replace the bearings, brakes, control arm, tie rods, leaf springs etc. New tires too.. Once all that is done I will have it repainted.
I am glad it helped. When you get all that done it will be ready to go. Should last you a long time. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for your video. It's going to help me hook up my lights on my horse trailer with ease.
I am glad it helps you out! Thank you for watching!
Thank you! You made my day!
What did you use for the rust?
What size the tail lights
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Did you have to add two ground wires to the frame in order to get your clearance lights to work. If not how did you get them to work on both side??
One ground is all you need. From the plug to any clean metal on the trailer frame. The metal trailer is one big ground. Anywhere on the trailer that is metal will be a ground for your lights. All the wires you run to your lights are positive voltage. Each light will have its own ground that just ties to any metal on the trailer. In the instance of the clearance lights. There is no actual ground wire. They get their ground from the screws or rivets you use to mount them. It is important to make sure the holes you use to rivet them or screw them on are clean metal. I believe you can see in the video the ground strap inside the clearance lights. One side has a metal strap where the mounting hole is. The other is just plastic. This metal strap goes to the light bulb to provide ground or negative. The only time you would need a wire for ground is if you were mounting the light on wood. For whatever reason. In this case you would have to run a wire from the metal strap on the clearance light to any metal on the trailer. I hope this makes sense and helps. Thank you for watching!
Hey I have a question on my horse trailer should the wires have 14 volts or 12v cause when I check it shows 12 volts while truck is on
It’s hard to say honestly. I don’t remember ever taking a voltage reading on my truck and trailer lights. As long as you have 12v you should be good. Most newer trucks probably have voltage regulators that only allow 12v to lighting circuits. That way the circuit can not be over loaded by the alternator. Thanks for watching hope that helps!
What size tail lights did you use
I used 4”. I was going to put a link in the description. Apparently I got some that were discontinued from Walmart. I could not find them online or a link. Thank you for watching!
It was all good until I saw that anvil shaped piece of metal from Harbor. Come on man! As a fellow Southerner I expect better.
Have you seen how expensive real anvils are? I couldn’t justify a good one. I use it to beat random things more than make knives. If I get more in-depth into knife making I’ll get a good one. Thanks for watching!
@@FishHuntCookTinker I keep a ball bearing in my pocket all the time in case I come across a decent one at a random yard sale. Yeah they are ridiculous expensive. Lucky for me I inherited from Papaw and Dad a couple nice ones. As a farrier I can't get by with a bad one.
I’m sure in they line of work you need a good one. I have tried to buy a few at auctions in the past. Some one always needed it more than I did.