itmustbeslim
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Ok so here is where I am at after my work today: I know this is a repost but I was hoping to try and resolve the issue this weekend.
I pulled the old wires and ran new wires from the pigtail back, wired a new pigtail and connected the new wires to the lights. I connected the front ground to the tongue and tried to connect a ground to the back of the lights. So far I still get nothing, which makes me think it may be the lights themselves or at the very least the grounding of the lights. Here are some pictures:
This is the view of the lights from the back:
Another view of the lights:
Here is a view of the ground I made for the lights, because the lights are elevated a attached the ground at the bottom to the trailer frame, which I have since changed and shortened:
Here is the pigtail with the ground in the background:
Here is another view of the front ground:
Before any ground screw I used a cone grinding attachment and took all of the paint off at the ground site and used #10 self tapped screws. If you'll notice I didn't match the color of the wires up because I did not want to have to buy a whole other roll of wires.
The weirdest part is what happened after I connected the car to the trailer. Without connecting the car to the trailer I tested the car harness and the correct posts are firing when turn signals etc are turned on. After I connected the trailer and turned on the left or right turn signal all 3 wires on the trailer were showing voltage blinking but still not lights (using a circuit tester). Why would this happen? I even checked the ground on the car just in case.
Do I need to replace the lights? The bulbs seem fine.
I am not sure what is happening so any help or direction would be much appreciated, this is very frustrating because it should be so simple and yet just out of reach.
I pulled the old wires and ran new wires from the pigtail back, wired a new pigtail and connected the new wires to the lights. I connected the front ground to the tongue and tried to connect a ground to the back of the lights. So far I still get nothing, which makes me think it may be the lights themselves or at the very least the grounding of the lights. Here are some pictures:
This is the view of the lights from the back:
Another view of the lights:
Here is a view of the ground I made for the lights, because the lights are elevated a attached the ground at the bottom to the trailer frame, which I have since changed and shortened:
Here is the pigtail with the ground in the background:
Here is another view of the front ground:
Before any ground screw I used a cone grinding attachment and took all of the paint off at the ground site and used #10 self tapped screws. If you'll notice I didn't match the color of the wires up because I did not want to have to buy a whole other roll of wires.
The weirdest part is what happened after I connected the car to the trailer. Without connecting the car to the trailer I tested the car harness and the correct posts are firing when turn signals etc are turned on. After I connected the trailer and turned on the left or right turn signal all 3 wires on the trailer were showing voltage blinking but still not lights (using a circuit tester). Why would this happen? I even checked the ground on the car just in case.
Do I need to replace the lights? The bulbs seem fine.
I am not sure what is happening so any help or direction would be much appreciated, this is very frustrating because it should be so simple and yet just out of reach.