I thought I’d watched all the trailer lights videos on TH-cam but they were hiding yours from me. I’m now fixing to start over and i might even add a little custom to mine. Really appreciate your time and expertise you put into your videos.
That my friend is the best on TH-cam for teaching someone like me how to wire a trailer. I’ve watched most of the video’s here on the Tube and most there showing you how smart they are and for me not getting the whole picture. Thanks brother!!!!!👍👍👍👍
Awesome job awesome end results. Thank you for sharing the step by step how to’s, I’m rebuilding a 16 ‘ low bow w/tilt bed my dad left me after he passed away. I’m bringing the trailer back to like showroom quality with a kick. You video has given me a clear path on the questions I had.. Great video and thank you again
Great video for beginners like myself. I don’t have any questions for you and I’ve never wired a trailer before. Very informational and straight forward. 10/10.
Great video. I recently finished building a trailer mounted smoker and your video inspired me to add more lights 😂 I’m also using LEDs. My old trailer used bulbs so I’m really looking forward to the difference.
I really like your video! I learned that you can wire a white ground wire without having to use a self tapping screw but bulletproof the unstablity of the trailer metal (i have a hf folding trailer) and insure the ground completes the signal with wiring instead. Nobody I have seen wires a trailer like that and I intend to be another that wires it like you! Thx for the video! 🛳⚓
Just watched your video on wiring a Subway plug you didn't awesome job of explaining it now I'm watching a trailer one very good explaining things keep up the videos
Just wondering why no shrink wrap on your butt connectors. I re- wired my trailer with harbor freight lights and wire in 4 years the wire was trash. Do you use marine grade wire on/in the trailer? Thanks love the video
Haha seems like you enjoy soldering about as much as I do. But it's a must in my gig- I take care of four boats (2 RHIB, 1 skiff and 1 small Zodiac) as part of my day-to-day for the Province (NB Canada). The boats are used in salt water, summer and winter, and this is the rust belt, so they get road salt too. I use solder and silicone to seal up about an inch past each way on a joint. The fixtures are mostly junk these days and I'd like to see an underwater dive light company like Pelican team up with someone to make trailer lights. Nice work on that trailer, and thanks for the content.
excellent video. The only thing I would add is to solder all connections and then butt connect and then heat shrink. Down here in the Gulf salt water soldering is a must. Also I ran irrigation tubing (black) inside the channels to run the wires and elevated the rear lights to the guide-ons tops to minimize the wiring getting in contact with water!
i don't know if you're only putting that in fresh water and you might get away with spray can paint. I can give you my history on my trailer. I'm in Minnesota and my 2006 car trailer by 2016 was getting quite rusty. It had been painted in 2006 by the guy that built it for me. In 2016 I sandblasted what i could get to, then i borrowed a large forklift, turned it upside down and blasted and painted the rest of it. I painted it with a brush, as I consider it more important to get it all covered than how good it looks. I used POR15 paint, including the top coat hoping it wont fade. Long story short, it faded, however the front where my pickup tires throw sand against it is still covered in paint as is the rest of it and it still has the original wood in it and I paint that with deck paint every 7 years nor so. It sits inside 1/3 of time. I thank you for your video as I'm working to upgrade to the grommet style lighting.
hey my friend a uni bit will work great drilling holes in thin material. won't wrap that drill cord around your arm. great video. : ) and a little bit of dish washing liquid (dawn) rubbed around the rubber light gasket will help your lens slide in easier
Can you leave a link to the place you got the smaller green and amber lights? I live the idea of a landing strip on the top side of the trailer when it’s dark.
If you use quality wire it won't be a issue. Crimp connections will drain. You can use adhesive heat shrink crimp connections if you want to step it up but it's not necessary.
@@WHITERIVERRAMBO hello am redoing my trailer also started today i want to do the second light like you just wondering how did you measure the distance between the two holes that you made
When wiring motorcycles I tie a string to the end of the wire shove the string into the hole and push it with a blow-dryer. Try it on a closed tube trailer frame -
Help & question? The only light not working on my trailer (7 pin) is rear most passenger red running light. I know its not the bulb because right turn signal and brake lights work. Im thinking I need to check the brown wire to that light. Am I right? The truck is a 24 Tundra.
With those butt end connectors not being a water proof connection do you ever have any corrosion? I'm looking to rewire my boat trailer and was kinda worried about not having all the connections water proof especially the marker lights on the fenders.
What’s up, I want to add chicken lights onto my Double PWC trailer. My question is, is it okay to drill those 3/4 inch holes on the frame of my trailer? Will it lose durability if I do drill the holes?
Great job! If I might ask, did you mean for your shell (3rd brake lite) to also blink? There should be an extra line (in Ford's) near the spare on driver frame rail dedicated for the 3rd brake lite for shells or extras. Would have loved to see an at night shot with the boat on the trailer. I can imagine it looks spankin.
I figured that's what happen. Sorry, I just have a weird thing for wiring things and I happen to notice that small thing. Hope your trailer is holding up well.
@@DaninDewey yep only issue I had was the Ebay 2x6 lights weren't sealed. I should have known better than to buy them for $8 each. But minor glitch. Thanks for watching.
Hey brother, I can't find anyone to answer this question. My marker lights, once screwed down into the aluminum on my trailer, there is 2 sharp connectors that puncture the power wire and that's how they connect. They don't have a harness, do you know where I can find these? Please help.
Great job man, I got a problem on the lighting of my trailer. My trailer has amber turn signals on the side and when I got the brakes they light up as if I had the blinkers on. They also work normal when I hit the turn signal or just running lights. Have any idea what my problem could be?
I know this is some time later, but the lack of a good ground causes the bulk of trailer light problems. The best way is a ground wire to every light-provided the lights have a ground wire coming out of them. If they don't, check and strengthen your ground to frame connection.
do you splice all the ground wires together at the plug up front? Im having some issues with my grounds and I think I need to bypass the trailer as my ground. Thanks for the video
Be careful how much steal you cut out of the frame that supports the boat. Also after making your connections dip them deep in a new bottle of plastic tape. I may dip mine twice so the connections can withstand saltwater longer. It has worked for me many years.
Super job! Just missing some adhesive lined shrink tube for the butt connections since it'll be used in water, but other than that, very tidy work! I've seen trailers where rear lights have been fitted and then the excess wire pulled tight from the front and then cut, leaving no room to remove the rear lights for servicing etc. 🙄 👍🏻
I do like the new soldering heat shrink connections but they were not available at the time of the video. Electricity will always follow the path of least resistance. By trying to keep water out you could also easily create pockets that hold water in. High quality wire won't see a problem but my eyes can't tell the difference between high and low quality copper so I don't know it's quality. If you have low quality copper submerged in water for long periods of time then it will corrode at a high rate. If it's in water or not copper is still more conductive than water so there's very little chance of a live wire conducting enough voltage through said water to a ground source and blowing a fuse. Especially when using LEDs. For me the biggest points are length of trailer, total amps, and wire size. Remember you can have to small of wire but not to big so always go overboard with wire size and you'll have less chance of future problems. Hope this helps but I don't believe no matter how hard you try you can keep all the water out. The smallest nick in a liner and it was all a waste of time. Instead I just make sure my connections are tight and let it ride. Good luck friend.
@@WHITERIVERRAMBO Thanks for your reply. The only improvement you could make is to used marine wire which is tinned to help prevent corrosion, but the cost would be higher. The beauty of the LEDs is the low amps they draw makes cable size almost insignificant but I agree, leaving some breathing space in size is always a good idea. The green LEDs will look sweet under water! I was going to say you could add some work lights to the trailer to help loading at night but I see you already have them on the front of the boat. Very nice set up. Happy new year.
You should never use that type of butt connectors for a marine application. Noninsulated butt connectors with glue lined heat shrink or marine grade butt connectors.
It doesn't matter if you use high grade tinned wire. You're insulating the wire not trying to waterproof it. Been doing trailers this way for 15yrs without failure.
I thought I’d watched all the trailer lights videos on TH-cam but they were hiding yours from me. I’m now fixing to start over and i might even add a little custom to mine. Really appreciate your time and expertise you put into your videos.
Hands down, best trailer wiring video I've watched, and I've seen many. Thanks for sharing your work.
Thank you Dustin. One of the few folks with these videos that goes into all the details. Much appreciated!
Glad to help!
That my friend is the best on TH-cam for teaching someone like me how to wire a trailer. I’ve watched most of the video’s here on the Tube and most there showing you how smart they are and for me not getting the whole picture. Thanks brother!!!!!👍👍👍👍
Awesome job awesome end results. Thank you for sharing the step by step how to’s, I’m rebuilding a 16 ‘ low bow w/tilt bed my dad left me after he passed away. I’m bringing the trailer back to like showroom quality with a kick. You video has given me a clear path on the questions I had.. Great video and thank you again
Great video for beginners like myself. I don’t have any questions for you and I’ve never wired a trailer before. Very informational and straight forward. 10/10.
Super cool Brother! Love the green up light along the rail.
Great video. I recently finished building a trailer mounted smoker and your video inspired me to add more lights 😂 I’m also using LEDs. My old trailer used bulbs so I’m really looking forward to the difference.
I really like your video! I learned that you can wire a white ground wire without having to use a self tapping screw but bulletproof the unstablity of the trailer metal (i have a hf folding trailer) and insure the ground completes the signal with wiring instead. Nobody I have seen wires a trailer like that and I intend to be another that wires it like you! Thx for the video! 🛳⚓
Just watched your video on wiring a Subway plug you didn't awesome job of explaining it now I'm watching a trailer one very good explaining things keep up the videos
Glad it helped
Thank you for this video! Getting the nerve up to wire my camper running lights and needed this video!
Well done! Thank you for your caring to share your insight.
By the way great videos! I’ve been watching them for a refresher. It’s been about 2 years and a friend needs help with his trailer lights.
Just wondering why no shrink wrap on your butt connectors. I re- wired my trailer with harbor freight lights and wire in 4 years the wire was trash. Do you use marine grade wire on/in the trailer? Thanks love the video
Absolutely marine grade tinned wire helps. Lower grade Chinese wire will disintegrate quickly.
Good job in demo. Nice trailer after paint👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
The yellow and green markers look really sharp! Nice job! 👍
Great video. Felt right at home with his country-style of presentation
Haha seems like you enjoy soldering about as much as I do. But it's a must in my gig- I take care of four boats (2 RHIB, 1 skiff and 1 small Zodiac) as part of my day-to-day for the Province (NB Canada). The boats are used in salt water, summer and winter, and this is the rust belt, so they get road salt too. I use solder and silicone to seal up about an inch past each way on a joint. The fixtures are mostly junk these days and I'd like to see an underwater dive light company like Pelican team up with someone to make trailer lights.
Nice work on that trailer, and thanks for the content.
Nice job I'm doing my trailer lights now
I saw the first clip and now this one, "I got the idea" just great.
excellent video. The only thing I would add is to solder all connections and then butt connect and then heat shrink. Down here in the Gulf salt water soldering is a must. Also I ran irrigation tubing (black) inside the channels to run the wires and elevated the rear lights to the guide-ons tops to minimize the wiring getting in contact with water!
Great job beautiful trailer.
Awesome job I'm looking to getting a car trailer soon just looking for light ideas because I'm like you, not enough stock lights, this was great!
i don't know if you're only putting that in fresh water and you might get away with spray can paint. I can give you my history on my trailer. I'm in Minnesota and my 2006 car trailer by 2016 was getting quite rusty. It had been painted in 2006 by the guy that built it for me. In 2016 I sandblasted what i could get to, then i borrowed a large forklift, turned it upside down and blasted and painted the rest of it. I painted it with a brush, as I consider it more important to get it all covered than how good it looks. I used POR15 paint, including the top coat hoping it wont fade. Long story short, it faded, however the front where my pickup tires throw sand against it is still covered in paint as is the rest of it and it still has the original wood in it and I paint that with deck paint every 7 years nor so. It sits inside 1/3 of time. I thank you for your video as I'm working to upgrade to the grommet style lighting.
Thank you for taking the time to explain this.
The green lights would come in handy when putting the boat on the trailer at night 👍👍😎
Man you did a great job. I want to do this to my trailer...
awesome video simple instructions even I could follow thank you for sharing made it easy...
Nice video. Good work.
This is a very well made video. Thank you!
Thank you for your knowledge.
Great video! Got a link to the Maxxima lights you used?
Excellent video thank you
Thank you😊
Great job!!!!
hey my friend a uni bit will work great drilling holes in thin material. won't wrap that drill cord around your arm. great video. : ) and a little bit of dish washing liquid (dawn) rubbed around the rubber light gasket will help your lens slide in easier
Can you leave a link to the place you got the smaller green and amber lights? I live the idea of a landing strip on the top side of the trailer when it’s dark.
Great Video....
Mucho good. Tanks berry mucho
Huge help thank you
I like this guy.
Good video. With that being a boat trailer don’t the connections need to be sealed better that just crimped. ?
If you use quality wire it won't be a issue. Crimp connections will drain. You can use adhesive heat shrink crimp connections if you want to step it up but it's not necessary.
Yep! You sure don't want weather to get anywhere inside the wiring. Corrosion will set in and build up on battery terminal.
@@WHITERIVERRAMBO hello am redoing my trailer also started today i want to do the second light like you just wondering how did you measure the distance between the two holes that you made
When wiring motorcycles I tie a string to the end of the wire shove the string into the hole and push it with a blow-dryer.
Try it on a closed tube trailer frame -
You had me at chicken lights!
Help & question? The only light not working on my trailer (7 pin) is rear most passenger red running light. I know its not the bulb because right turn signal and brake lights work. Im thinking I need to check the brown wire to that light. Am I right?
The truck is a 24 Tundra.
With those butt end connectors not being a water proof connection do you ever have any corrosion? I'm looking to rewire my boat trailer and was kinda worried about not having all the connections water proof especially the marker lights on the fenders.
Thank you so much!!!!!!
thank you!
You're welcome!
Left side
Brown to black
yellow to red
white to ground
Right side
Brown to black
Red to green
White to ground
@Eve Nacio So This is what I was looking for, Thanks!
Thank you
What’s up, I want to add chicken lights onto my Double PWC trailer. My question is, is it okay to drill those 3/4 inch holes on the frame of my trailer? Will it lose durability if I do drill the holes?
On a little pwc wagon you'll be fine. Just don't get carried away
@@WHITERIVERRAMBO thanks man, I appreciate it.
No back up lights?
Great job! If I might ask, did you mean for your shell (3rd brake lite) to also blink? There should be an extra line (in Ford's) near the spare on driver frame rail dedicated for the 3rd brake lite for shells or extras. Would have loved to see an at night shot with the boat on the trailer. I can imagine it looks spankin.
It's a chevy, just removed a brake light and tied it in. Not perfect but it works.
I figured that's what happen. Sorry, I just have a weird thing for wiring things and I happen to notice that small thing. Hope your trailer is holding up well.
@@DaninDewey yep only issue I had was the Ebay 2x6 lights weren't sealed. I should have known better than to buy them for $8 each. But minor glitch. Thanks for watching.
Hey brother, I can't find anyone to answer this question. My marker lights, once screwed down into the aluminum on my trailer, there is 2 sharp connectors that puncture the power wire and that's how they connect. They don't have a harness, do you know where I can find these? Please help.
Great job man, I got a problem on the lighting of my trailer. My trailer has amber turn signals on the side and when I got the brakes they light up as if I had the blinkers on. They also work normal when I hit the turn signal or just running lights. Have any idea what my problem could be?
I know this is some time later, but the lack of a good ground causes the bulk of trailer light problems. The best way is a ground wire to every light-provided the lights have a ground wire coming out of them. If they don't, check and strengthen your ground to frame connection.
where did you get the 25 ft harness. The longest I have found was 15 ft for a 7 wire w/plug attached.
Look for raw materials were you can buy by the foot and the plug separately like etrailer.com
do you splice all the ground wires together at the plug up front? Im having some issues with my grounds and I think I need to bypass the trailer as my ground. Thanks for the video
yes. ground from the plug goes to every single fixture.
With this way of grounding, (ie 7 pin)do I still need to attach a ground wire directly to trailer frame. Same as 4 pin wiring
It's better if you wore a ground to each individual light. But you can do it that way
@@WHITERIVERRAMBO
Ok good enough.
Thanks.
Great job on the trailer.
What are you using to make all the wire connections
Good morning evening! Was it auto motive paint or just regular spray paint ? Thank you getting ready to paint my trailer
Dude great video... Should have watched you before I did mine lol, just one question what length should the connector be from trailer to the vehicle.
long enough to turn and not bind up. every vehicle and ball configuration is slightly different.
Heyy my camper come with a white wire and black the light I got from walmart only has a black wire..now what..I'm lost
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Be careful how much steal you cut out of the frame that supports the boat. Also after making your connections dip them deep in a new bottle of plastic tape. I may dip mine twice so the connections can withstand saltwater longer. It has worked for me many years.
How did you wire the small Led's in the back?
Same as I did on every light on the trailer. Brown running light wire for hot.
Wife: "there's a new season of Stranger Things on." Me "you go ahead honey, I'm watching this dude wire a trailer." Great vid man!
do you have any links for those little led markers?
Ebay... "3/4 led marker" come in red,amber,and a bunch of offroad colors.
I am very skeptical about LED lights ,,I bought a light strip for the back of my Ram and it lasted a few Mos. before it started to lose lights
Why do the LED have a black wire instead of brown...you have two colored wires
Because China doesn't follow American standards.
Super job! Just missing some adhesive lined shrink tube for the butt connections since it'll be used in water, but other than that, very tidy work!
I've seen trailers where rear lights have been fitted and then the excess wire pulled tight from the front and then cut, leaving no room to remove the rear lights for servicing etc. 🙄 👍🏻
I do like the new soldering heat shrink connections but they were not available at the time of the video. Electricity will always follow the path of least resistance. By trying to keep water out you could also easily create pockets that hold water in. High quality wire won't see a problem but my eyes can't tell the difference between high and low quality copper so I don't know it's quality. If you have low quality copper submerged in water for long periods of time then it will corrode at a high rate. If it's in water or not copper is still more conductive than water so there's very little chance of a live wire conducting enough voltage through said water to a ground source and blowing a fuse. Especially when using LEDs. For me the biggest points are length of trailer, total amps, and wire size. Remember you can have to small of wire but not to big so always go overboard with wire size and you'll have less chance of future problems. Hope this helps but I don't believe no matter how hard you try you can keep all the water out. The smallest nick in a liner and it was all a waste of time. Instead I just make sure my connections are tight and let it ride. Good luck friend.
@@WHITERIVERRAMBO Thanks for your reply. The only improvement you could make is to used marine wire which is tinned to help prevent corrosion, but the cost would be higher. The beauty of the LEDs is the low amps they draw makes cable size almost insignificant but I agree, leaving some breathing space in size is always a good idea. The green LEDs will look sweet under water! I was going to say you could add some work lights to the trailer to help loading at night but I see you already have them on the front of the boat. Very nice set up. Happy new year.
I don't know how he uses the angle grinder without hearing protection. So loud!
You should never use that type of butt connectors for a marine application. Noninsulated butt connectors with glue lined heat shrink or marine grade butt connectors.
It doesn't matter if you use high grade tinned wire. You're insulating the wire not trying to waterproof it. Been doing trailers this way for 15yrs without failure.
Thank you