Archived No Tail light's on trailer

[Simplysmn]

Hey Guys Help I have a trailer that I have to pull first thing in morning and I can not figure this one out at dark tonight I went to check all my light's and I have turn's stop and flasher's but no tail light's what so ever just on trailer . I looked in book and found that it is fuse 15 pulled fuse and it Looks good am I missing something here or what ? HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP this is on my 2008 Ram

 

[mfburns]

If the tail lights on the truck are OK the fuse should be good. I think it might be in the plug connection not getting a good contact for that circuit. All other trailer lights work and truck lights work so it must be from the plug to the tail lights. If it was a short in the wire I would think it would blow the fuse which you said was good and the truck lights would be out. I think you may be getting a bad connection in the plug. PLug and unplug it a few times and see if you get a better connection. A little wire brushing/emery paper may help and di electric grease if you have it. I am no expert on this but this is what I do after the boat has been in storage for the winter. Always seems to work for me.

 

[wcjp]

Use two jumper wires from the battery to the trailer. One for ground, the other is power. This will verify the trailer is working.

 

[bmoeller]

If the trailer fuse is good on the truck (usually seperate from the truck running lights), then you probably have a bad connection or broken wire on the trailer.

 

[Simplysmn]

Hey Guys found the problem trailer has a seperate fuse for running lights to me it looked good well it was bad so I am back up and running Thank's for the help the thing that was puzzling me was I had everything but running lights on trailer . but after reading book I found where it showed there was a fuse just for the trailer running lights seperate from truck lights .