Wiring harness

[toypusher]

My Hoppy wiring harness has a bad converter, so, my left side lights don't work! A whole new wiring harness is $35 or more!

I did some research and found this: http://www.truckcustomizers.com/product ... 428.6.html

Can I use this and splice it into my current wiring harness in place of the converter that came on it? I think that I will have to get another male flat-4 end also.

[asianflava]

The same thing happened to mine. The left turn and running lights worked but the brake lamps didn't. Took me forever to figure it out, well it took me even longer to get around to it. Anyway, I was puzzled because the brake and turn ran thru the same wiring and same bulb filaments. I hooked it up to another vehicle that didn't use a converter and everythng worked.

I ditched the Hoppy converter and used a different Hoppy harness that plugged into the factory converter. I didn't know the vehicle had it till after I bought the first one.

[madjack]

Kerry, I don't see why it wouldn't work...but I would do as Rocky suggested and make sure that there isn't a simple "plug in" harness from the TV manufacturer that would work...my '01 Aztek had a harness that simply plugged into the existing harness for the trailer lights...
madjack

[brian_bp]

I assume that Kerry proposes to continue to use the proper plug-in harness, but within that harness to substitue the failed converter with the generic one. The splicing would be into the model-specific Hoppy harness, not directly into the tug's harness. Correct me if I'm wrong about this.

You can bet Hoppy only builds as many versions of the converter as they need, so one of the generic choices should exactly match the failed part. It sounds like a reasonable plan, with the degree of sucess depending on the quality of the wiring connections.

I would just pay the $35... but I suppose every extra expenditure means less left for the nice-to-haves on the trailer.