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electric brake controller

looks kind of like my 95, when i get the motor rebuilt or swapped, it will have to be fully redone. my 91 gas has been cobbled, but luckily on the bed harness itself, not the chassis harness.
 
DieselCash said:
That is almost as bad as my truck was. I just de-wired everything and will re-wire it all back.

Wish you luck!:thumbsup:
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Thanks - I'd still really like to know what the deal is with the push button and light above the E-brake is. Just curious, (and the button doesn't click, so I wouldn't think so) but do electric trailer brakes come with an option of e-brake? Could the button be used to somehow lock the brakes on the trailer when the truck e-brake was engaged...cause, that would make sense...maybe?
 
I have never seen an electronic e-brake. I have seen many manual e-brake. It would be a pull handle on the trailer. The Arm uses it on all of its trailers, usually one for each side.

If the push button does not click pull try to lube it with some wd-40 or such. If it still does not click I would yank it out or replace it.

Were does the wire on it trace back to? The trailer connector?

Were does the push button wire come from before it goes into the thing?
 
DieselCash said:
I have never seen an electronic e-brake. I have seen many manual e-brake. It would be a pull handle on the trailer. The Arm uses it on all of its trailers, usually one for each side.

If the push button does not click pull try to lube it with some wd-40 or such. If it still does not click I would yank it out or replace it.

Were does the wire on it trace back to? The trailer connector?

Were does the push button wire come from before it goes into the thing?
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from what I could gather (because you can tell how nasty everything looks), the wire goes from the RRwiper & Illum to the switch and then to all 3 plugs in back (the bed 7 pt (gooseneck), 7 pt bumper, 6 pt bumper)
 
It sounds like it is there to flash the lights for when truckers let you in front of them.
 
DieselCash said:
It sounds like it is there to flash the lights for when truckers let you in front of them.
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you know....that actually kind of makes sense. Because its wired into the trucks illum and also the trailers - it would cancel out. hmmm. I wonder if I can test this w/o a trailer.
 
Yes! A test light. :thumbsup:

If you do not have one they can be had for cheap.
 
GM Guy said:
are you going to rewire it to seven only, and use an adapter to get your six?
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that's what I've always done, if needed. I never pull anything that has a six pt plug though - its either 7 or 4 (though, now that I think of it, I think our old stock trailer has a 6).

I'm thinking of leaving my other 6 pt plug on the bumper for an auxiliary plugging set up - something where the terminals are on switches. I may feed my backup light switch onto that series of wiring, so I don't have to worry about my auxiliary power backfeeding into the engine fuse box (where our stock backup light power comes from).
 
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