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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: Wheezer on April 30, 2010, 04:32:07 PM
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Alright, all you geniuses out there help me out with this. I know that many of you flat tow your Jeeps either behind an RV or other tow vehicle. I too will be towing my '95 YJ behind my motor home soon. What I need is simplified schematics for wiring my Jeep's tail light to accept signals from the motor home, so I don't have to string additional lights when towing. I know some of you have done this, so help a Jeeper out.
Thanks!
Wheezer
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Alright, all you geniuses out there help me out with this. I know that many of you flat tow your Jeeps either behind an RV or other tow vehicle. I too will be towing my '95 YJ behind my motor home soon. What I need is simplified schematics for wiring my Jeep's tail light to accept signals from the motor home, so I don't have to string additional lights when towing. I know some of you have done this, so help a Jeeper out.
Thanks!
Wheezer
Simplest way is to just unplug the plug in the passenger wheelwell and run your trailer harness back to that plug. If you send me your email I can send you an XPS doc with the 2 pages in the FSM that show the tail lights
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I ran a trailer flatwire from the front to the rear light. Brown connects to the running lights. White goes to ground. You need a diode to hook up the turn/stop light for yellow and green. I picked mine up from my local RV repair/parts place for around $20-30. So my running lights all light up and my rear tail lights stop and blink. I ran the wire along frame zip tieing them to the fuel lines to keep it from getting caught on anything.
After driving over the cable once, I replaced the 4 wire connector with 6 wire port on the front and made a jumper wire that connect to the 6 wire port to 4 wire port.
Here's some easy to wire kits that include wire diagrams (I should have bought one of these ;) ):
http://www.etrailer.com/p-RM-150.html (http://www.etrailer.com/p-RM-150.html)
http://www.etrailer.com/p-RM-154.html (http://www.etrailer.com/p-RM-154.html)
My diodes I used looked like the ones in the kit.
(http://www.etrailer.com/merchant2/graphics/00000001/pics/R/M/RM-790.jpg)
Here's the jumper wire that goes from my jeep to my rv:
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9m5QCar1AqI/S9U5k3EiXuI/AAAAAAAAAfY/8uUOzLfXJsw/s720/IMG00040-20081228-0930.jpg)
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9m5QCar1AqI/S9U5ktdJUAI/AAAAAAAAAfU/0iRxeCX4k3w/s720/IMG00038-20081228-0930.jpg)
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By the way, I've always noticed that my lights look pretty dim when connected during tow. I'm sure it's because I ran over the wire which stretched the copper before snapping it causing resistance. I plan on picking up some 4" round LED lights and converting my tail lights to LED so it's brighter while in tow. You have to also add clear lights for reverse and a license plate light if you do this. They sale kit replacements, but I'm notoriously cheap and go the cheapest routes when possible.
(http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/68x68/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_3065.jpg) only $5.87
http://www.harborfreight.com/4-inch-submersible-led-stop-turn-trailer-tail-light-with-flange-mount-94795.html (http://www.harborfreight.com/4-inch-submersible-led-stop-turn-trailer-tail-light-with-flange-mount-94795.html)
(http://www.quadratec.com/Assets/Images/122672/122672-th.jpg) $169 for a kit
http://www.quadratec.com/products/12403_0085.htm (http://www.quadratec.com/products/12403_0085.htm)
Just an FYI.
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THAT'S IT! I knew you guys would come through. Thanks
Wheezer