wiring 7 pin plug

[Kingram]

Does anyone make a "tee" adapter to connect a bed-mounted 7 pin plug?



To explain:



I have put a plug in one of the bed standards to connect my 5ver and gooseneck. I ran the cord down to the rear hitch and put a female plug on it to connect to the factory trailer plug. Works fine, but is corroding some. I'd like to tie this upper plug directly into the existing wiring harness. I hate to cut and splice. I've seen the 4 pin harness adapters that plug into the existing factory harness to give you lights for your trailer plug.



What I'd like to do is find a 7 connector "tee" that would allow me to tie into the existing trailer plug wiring right back by the factory plug.



Make sense



Chris

 

[Prairie Dog]

Do you want to plug this tee into the back of your factory 7pin connector so nothing is coming out of the trailer side of the 7 pin conn? If so then that maybe hard to do.

I've read somewhere here before that some trucks have a place to connect for a fiver thats located towards the cab end of the bed but is hidden inside the loom somewhere. Anybody now anything about this?

 

[Kingram]

Thanks for the reply. Acutally, I was hoping just to tie into the harness where it connects to the plug. There is a factory connection there I was hoping to "tee" into. It looks like as many 5ver/gooseneck applications as there are out there, someone would have made an aftermarket harness to install a bed mounted plug.



Thanks again,

Chris

 

[TowPro]

all the "quick fix" adaptor connectors I saw only worked for stop and tail lights.



I just spliced and soldered mine into the harness in front of the factory 7 pin connector.

 

[THerman]

The factory connector at the back of the 7 pin connector is a major source of problems... I have read of several coroding and mine destroyed itself... I had to replace the whole connector... did it with aftermarket stuff. I would splice into the harness at the point that you want to put the connector.





Tod

 

[jgil104]

Originally posted by THerman

The factory connector at the back of the 7 pin connector is a major source of problems... I have read of several coroding and mine destroyed itself... I had to replace the whole connector... did it with aftermarket stuff. I would splice into the harness at the point that you want to put the connector.





Tod

by splice i hope you mean splice and solder than tape i'm just finishing up with with corrosion problems from the triler all the forward to the battery [solderd all triailer brake wireing up to the trailer lead wire replaced the cable w anew 7 wire w 1/10 2/12 4/16cable than soldered +added another frame ground , than on the truck ran 2#10from thebattery pos postw30ampbreaker/neg post on the battery to replace the lite gage wire on truck harness for the chargeing circut for the trailer batteries ] morlie to story is no more scothlocks connectors they corrode too easy