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2-8 Brake Hand-held Electronic Brake Controller by Reese - Time Delayed
5510
$79.95
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Installation of a Brake Controller on a 2006 Honda Ridgeline
Today we are going to install part number 5510, the Brakeman Digital Remote Electronic Brake Control, and we are going to install this on a 2006 Honda Ridgeline. The first step that is involved is to go ahead and install a 20-amp circuit breaker that will go between the battery and the brake controller itself. We want it right about in this area right here. The next thing we will do is go ahead and run our wires for our battery up to our circuit breaker, and then from our circuit breaker it is going to go behind the firewall and come out by this grommet right down in here. We will push this screwdriver through it just to give you an idea of which grommet we are going to run our wires through to get to the inside of the vehicle. What we did was, we pulled the grommet loose on the inside and pulled back up on the cable. We just made a slit in it with a knife and we are going to reinstall the grommet and then push our wire through. For now we will just trace along with the original wire harness down to our battery to check for length. We can cut into our cable and put our connection points onto the circuit breaker as well as down to the battery itself, but we will hook up our battery as the last deal. We will leave our white wire connected because that is going to carry ground to our brake controller. All right, then we will hook our terminals up here temporarily. We will use the copper-color one going to our battery, and then the silver one will go out to our brake controller. Now we need to strip our cable down to our negative terminal here, so we can have a connection point there, also. Now we will take a few zip-ties and just secure our wire harness, but, again, we will just leave these connections as the last thing we do. Now we will go back underneath the dash and start making our connections to the brake controller box itself.
We strip our cable back and take a few strands off, because what goes into the brake controller is really tight. The wires go from these little wire clamps inside our brake controller here and they are labeled right here which one does what. We have the feed going into the brake controller and the ground, now what we will do is go ahead and run a red wire up to our brake pedal switch. We will swing that back up with the cable and come back behind and connect them to our brake switch right here. We have to find which wire does our brake signal and then we will tap into that wire. We are actually going to probe inside the area where the wires actually go into because of the little metal tab there which actually tests without having to pierce the wires themselves. That one comes on with the brake pedal, so that is the brake signal we need. So now we need to tap off this black and white wire here. All right, and the last one we need to run is from the brake controller out back to the 7-pole connector. What we need is to match up to the rest of our wire, we will go ahead and install that into the trailer brake lug right here. What we will do now is go ahead and bundle up our wires here and make them nice and neat and then we will actually mount our brake controller up underneath the dash.
OK, with all our wires hooked up and out of the way, what we will do is go ahead and mount our brake control box. And this box has a few places on the brake controller itself where you actually zip-tie it to wherever you can underneath the dash. The main thing is to keep it away from any moving parts, and, if you can, as far as possible from the heater. What we are going to do is go ahead and just zip-tie it to this cable right here and lay it at an angle here so it will be completely out of the way when you are not using it. As you can see here, we have got our brake controller zip-tied to this cable here. It is nice and light, so it is not going to go anywhere. We have got access to our port and we have got our extra wires hidden behind this little kick panel right here. So underneath the dash our install is pretty much complete except for installing the plug for our remote control, and we will do that when we test out the brake controller. So we are done here for now. So we will go ahead and run our blue wire that is underneath the engine compartment out back to the 7-pole.
We will go ahead and run our wire back down beside the firewall out the bottom of the vehicle, making sure we stay away from any other moving components and any hot components also. We will get as far as we can from here and then we will reach in through the bottom and pull the rest through. We will keep running our line to whatever places we can tie off to. We will just try to follow along the frame as best we can. And actually through this hole in the frame here we can actually run it up and pretty far back through the frame. A lot of times, there are obstacles in the frame, so it is really hard to do this all the way through the body. Getting around the suspension components here it looks like we will have to go up and over we have to go over this component right here and over top of the rear axle and then back out the other side of the crossbar here. We will have to route our wire along the side here, and there is a gap between the frame and the hitch, and so we will use that to our advantage. We will come out the side here and then work our way up to our 7-pole. And what we need is a loom clamp to actually hold it up and out of harms way. We will put one up here and one up toward the gap up toward the front by the engine compartment, too.
The next thing we have to do is take apart our 7-pole here and run our wires from the inside out we have to get out of this bracket right here for now. We run our blue wire out on the original wire and then just cut off our excess, and we will hook up to the lead labeled blue on the 7-pole. We will add a ring terminal to the end of it. That will make a little bit stronger connection to the lugs here, especially when you are working with such a thick wire, compared to the other ones. Then we just need to reassemble our 7-pole. OK, we will hook up our car wires to the brake controller now. We will undo the ground first, and now we will do our positive. And with that, we will go ahead and test the function of the brake controller. We have got our remote control right here plugged into the unit, and you should see two zeros. That is showing us that we have our trailer hooked up to our 7-pole out back, so we know we have got a connection. So we know our brake controller is working and it is are ready to go. OK, and that covers our install of part number 5510 on our 2006 Honda Ridgeline.
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