Date:         Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:40:47 -0400
Reply-To:     Dick & Janette Smith <varieze@ASCENT.NET>
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From:         Dick & Janette Smith <varieze@ASCENT.NET>
Subject:      Re: wiring trailer lights
Comments: To: "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET>
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One method that I've used with success is to go to the area that you intend
to tap into and open the wire bundle.    Then take a muti-meter or 12vdc
bulb in a pigtail with clip leads and hook one lead to ground and then take
a small straight pin and insert it into each wire one at a time attaching
the other lead to it.    Now go thru a sequence of parking lites, brake
lites, turn signals and see what each wire lites.   The small holes made by
the pin are usually self healing and then you should rewrap bundle area that
you tapped into after your connections are made.

Dick & Janette Smith
North Country People
85 Westfalia "Sally Ann"

"No man, nor woman, may step twice in the same river."
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl F. Bloss <bloss@ENTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 6:55 PM
Subject: wiring trailer lights


> Is there a simpler way to wire a plug for a trailer hitch than just
> trying to figure out which wires do what (tail lights, blinkers),
> e.g. color coding?
>
> -Karl
>
> Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
> '87 GL Weekender  "Beverley"
> Mechanic list: http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/vwshops
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