Homestead Essentials - Harbor Freight Trailer Build Part 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- This trailer build has turned into a series all it's own. This is part 3, the wiring. This part is pretty straight forward. Hope the way that I ran the wiring will help others who happen to buy a trailer from Harbor Freight. Thanks for watching. Please like subscribe and share
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Watched a few other HF trailer wiring videos and they kinda rushed through it. Appreciated your methodical demo and description. Thanks a lot!
Great step by step explanation. Thank you!
Glad to help.
thanks for taking the time best explanatory
Thanks for watching. Glad I could help.
Thank you!!! Your video was exactly the explanation for how to wire my harbor freight trailer. You sure helped me out!
Thanks glad to have helped. Appericiate you watching.
I love the horses, and that looks like a great wiring kit and I bet that last a long time.
I hope so.
I bought one of these used. They’re great little trailers
So far I have hauled some scrap iron to the junk yard and it has pulled really well. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful horses! I miss riding horses. Nice job.
Thanks.
This is going to be so useful!
And.it is relatively inexpensive.
The instructions that came with the lights are very vague. This helped me TONS!! Thanks, buddy!
Awesome glad to have helped thanks for watching.
The way you ran the wire though the holes where it folds. Im assuming you don't plan on ever folding it because I think the wire needs to go under and leave some loose wire for it to fold and not through it where the wire is tight and risk pinching it?
No, I basically made it into a tilt trailer and it works real well. I did have to leave some slack at the tongue so when I tilt the trailer it doesn't pull the wire. It has really been a work horse for us.
Thank you. On the running lights (close to tongue) using an eye connector you grounded to the back of the bolt holding the light. At the back, stop/indicator lights, you grounded to the frame. Can’t get my lights to work... I used the mounting bolt on all 4 lights to attach the ground eye con. to & didn’t remove any paint. Will try exactly how you did it.
For the back connections I used a heat shrink butt connector with another heat shrink skin... I’m wondering if I should sautér the wires instead.
On the sides I used the Harbor Freight included “side by side “ blue plastic connectors to connect the two brown wires. Should I rethink that as well? I.e.Just START OVER. 😂😁. Also, with power to the light plug/harness turned on, should I get a “live wire” reading on from my volt tester? Multimeter?
Thank You! This really helps!
I always saunter my connections they are less likely to pull apart. If your trailer plug is plugged to the car and the lights are on you should get a live reading but only if the light is on.
High Desert Homestead Thank you for your reply. I’m using a Hopkins 7 blade to 4 flat adapter. Truck running, lights on, the adapter “glows” indicating it’s live, but no trailer lights, and no reading from the volt tester or multimeter. I’m thinking the wire terminal is bad. Thanks again for your video and instructions... the best out there. 👍🇺🇸🇨🇱
Step by step and straight to the point, thanks! Currently wiring my HF trailer now, do the self tapping screws for the ground wires come with it or will I need to go grab some?
You'll have to go grab some they do not come with them
I realize I am kinda off topic but does anyone know of a good website to watch new movies online?
@Milan Achilles Try flixzone. Just search on google for it :)
@Colt Paxton yup, have been using Flixzone for since march myself :)
@Colt Paxton Thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I appreciate it!!
What are zip strips?
Some people call them cable ties.
I think the license plate mount is backwards.
I ended up bot even using it.
How come you didn’t use the included blue cable connectors for the side lights? Just curious because I built my trailer and it’s not working so I’m wondering if it’s because I used those incorrectly
Those blue wire clamp connectors hardly ever work or for very long. They oxidize and corrode. I sauder and shrink wrap every connection. That way I dont have to worry about it coming loose corroding later.
@@HighDesertHomestead That makes sense, so basically what you do is you cut the main line, and tie in the side lights and solder all three of those together?
Yes sir.
@@HighDesertHomestead Thanks for you reply. I did the same and that's what fixed my problem. Lights work perfectly now. Thanks!