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Wiring Harness Installation - 2005 Chevrolet Equinox - Video

Today we are going to install part number 118391 from Tow Ready. This is a T-1 harness for an 2005 Chevrolet Equinox. We will begin our install by getting inside the vehicle and getting to the jack storage compartment. Once you take out the jack, reach down and you can actually feel for the wire harness down here. Feel around until you find the plastic plug. It does not come out far, but you can see it right here. And you pull it up. There is not much slack in it, but that is the connector right there. It is at the very bottom of the jack storage compartment. And simply your T-1 connector will just plug right into it. And also then your ground connector can connect to the ground wire that is at the bottom of the compartment. more

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Posted: 9/10/2008 3:49:01 PM

Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 Chevy Impala - Video

Today we are going to install part number 118417 on a 2007 Chevy Impala. The connection point for the T1 wiring harness is behind the passenger side tail light assembly. Right behind the bumper here. To access this we will have to open up the trunk and remove some of the fasteners to get the tail assembly off. We need to gain access to the fasteners that are holding the tail light assembly on. In doing so we are going to need to remove this screw here, there is one on each side. That will allow us to remove this back flange here. It might be sort of hard to see but there are actually 3 fasteners holding the tail light assembly on. We need to take all 3 of these off. That will allow us to remove the tail light assembly. Then you just want to carefully pry away and you can see the tail light assembly removes fairly easily. more

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Posted: 8/8/2008 9:32:56 AM

Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 Chevy Aveo - Video

Now we are going to install a circuit protector modulite on a 2007 Chevy Aveo. To access the wiring, we need to take off two panels; this inside panel here in the trunk and this inside panel here on the side. This will access our wiring back in the corner here. We will access the wiring at two points, on the left hand circuit and this wire bundle will go to the right hand circuit. We will tap it in here and here for clarity. more

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Posted: 11/21/2008 4:58:43 PM

Wiring Harness Installation - 1997 Chevy Express Full Size Van - Video

Some of these vans have the plug in from the factory, some dont. Generally most conversion vans will have it back in the panel here. This van is a regular passenger used as a work van, but if you have the plastic around here chances are the plug is in here. What you need to do is take this off and the components behind it to get to the plug. This is the plug we need right here. What well do is plug into this and run it out the bottom and its designed to kept in the van. more

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Posted: 8/7/2008 6:28:17 PM

Wiring Harness Installation - 2006 Chevy Uplander - Video

First well open up the rear door and start disassembling the tail lights and take them off the body. Well go ahead and take off one of the tail lights here. Theres two torque bolts that need to be taken out and light pops off from the housing. Okay the lights are off so now its time to start installing the wire. What well do is push the four pole through the cavity between the bumper and the body and out the bottom plus the end for the passengers side too. Well leave the end for the drivers side tail light up in the air, well make the connections with the harness and the tail light. With the drivers side tail light re-installed, pull out all your slack on your line here, what well do next is thread it through behind these bumper brackets. Well go across all four of them, what well do is take some extra zip ties and tie it to that so they wont be dangling and in the way. Now that weve gotten to the other side of the vehicle, well take our T-1 connector passenger side end and push it up the pocket and pull it out the other side. Now well pull the harness out of the cavity and go ahead and make our connections. While were at it well take up a little bit of slack by using the zip tie to tie the wire to itself. While were her well install our ground wire. Now we re-install our passenger light. more

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Posted: 8/8/2008 9:29:39 AM

7-Way Wiring Harness Installation - 1998 Chevy Silverado - Video

When pulling a 5th wheel or gooseneck trailer it is convenient to be able to plug the trailers electrical connector right into the bed of the truck. This is safer for the wiring and easier for you as you will not have to spend time securing the wiring along the trailer and then back down to the bumper. Most trucks have factory installed tow packages and custom wiring which can be quickly added and installed in the truck bed. Here Chris has a video showing us what he had to do to set up a 1998 Chevy truck, you will be surprised at how fast it can be done. more

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Posted: 7/24/2008 6:56:23 AM

Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 Chevrolet Silverado - Video

The 2007 Silverado body style as well as the 2008 styles have a place on the bumper where the plug can be mounted. We remove the cover here to give us the hole to mount the plug into place. Once weve removed the knockout from the bumper area well place the harness into position. Were going to have to drill holes out to mount this into place. You can use either a pen to mark the holes or a punch tool which is what Im going to use. Now we can move onto the drilling. Once we get the holes drilled, we want to mount the connector into place with the existing fasteners. Once we have the fasteners in we want to secure them with the nuts on the back side and tighten them down. Once weve mounted the plug onto the bumper area, we just need to make the connection up underneath the vehicle here. This is the back end of the connector we just installed, and this is the other side of the factory 7 peg connector. You just want to plug these together. This concludes the installation of wiring harness part # 30959 on a 2007 Chevy Silverado. more

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Posted: 8/8/2008 9:14:58 AM

Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 Chevy HHR - Video

Today we are going to install part number 118407 on our 2007 Chevy HHR. This install has everything kept on the inside of the vehicle. So we will open up the hatch and remove a few panels to get to it. The wiring cables we need to get to are behind this panel and also on the passenger side as well. We will also remove this carpet and paneling so that we can run the wires left and right. Also we must get to the spare tire cover. Then this panel that covers up the threshold you can simply pop off this panel and there is an identical one on the other side. Connecting the driver side first we will run the wires underneath the sheet metal and plastic. Pulling it up through the hole left by the paneling here. Then we can disconnect the wiring from the tail light and this T-Connector can fit. Then this end goes back onto the light socket. Then at the bottom here there is a ground stud we can use to attach our wire. Then we will take the other half of the harness and run it across the preexisting wiring harness and over past the battery. We will run the harness up and connect it to the tail light. more

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Posted: 8/8/2008 9:14:20 AM

Wiring Harness Installation - 2003 Chevy Malibu - Video

Today we are going to install part number 118002 from Tow Ready. This is a 4 pole wiring flat which we will have to hard wire into this 2003 Chevy Malibu. The first step is to get access to the trunk and wiring harness. Generally most vehicles will have wires around both sides of the vehicle and underneath the carpet. Sometimes they run them all the way to one side and then to the other. So lets get started removing the interior to get to the wiring harness. Now that we found these wires we can use the light testers to find out which wires do what. more

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Posted: 8/8/2008 9:02:13 AM