Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2010 Ford Escape - Video
Today on this 2010 Ford Escape we will be installing wiring harness part number 118551. We are going to start off at the rear of the vehicle and the first thing we are going to do is locate the ports that we are going to be plugging our wiring harness into. These ports are located directly behind the tail light assembly on both the driver and passenger sides of the vehicle. The first thing we need to do is remove each one of the tail lights. To do that as you can see I have already opened the cargo door that exposes the two inboard side screws that are holding each one of the tail lights on. With the two screws removed we can take and gently rock the tail light assembly back and forth because there are two push pin type connectors still inside there holding the tail light into place. 00:45 more
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Posted: 12/2/2010 4:22:20 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 2006 Ford Taurus - Video
Today on this 2006 Ford Taurus we are going to install wiring harness part number 18002 from Tow Ready. This is a 4-pole flat car end, 60 inches long with the wire taps. Our install is going to begin on the inside of the trunk and we will get to the wiring harness, which is located on the passenger side of the vehicle, behind the carpeting. :18 more
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Posted: 1/4/2010 9:14:38 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2002 Ford Windstar - Video
Today on this 2002 Ford Windstar we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118366. We are here at the rear cargo area of the Windstar, we want to locate the ports that we need to plug our wiring harness into. These ports are located directly behind the tail light assembly on both the driver and passenger sides. The first thing we are going to do is remove the tail light assemblies. To do that we have two Phillips head screws at the top of the tail light that we are going to remove. With those two sides removed we also need to release this inside clips that are holding the tail light assembly on. There is one on the outboard side and one on the inboard side at the bottom. And then starting on the passenger side, we are going to start plugging the harness in line. On the passenger side we are actually going to be using two of the plug ins here. Using the top one and the middle one. If you look at the harness you can see on the short side of it you actually have two sets of connectors that are color coordinated to match the connectors on the vehicle. 1:09 more
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Posted: 6/18/2010 11:34:44 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2000 Ford Windstar - Video
Today we are going to install part number 118366 from Tow Ready on a 2000 Ford Windstar. To get started, what we want to do is go ahead and lift up the tailgate and start taking off the passengers side tail light. Okay, the connection points are going to be on the gray connector here and the black connector. The green one is for the reverse light lead, and we will have nothing to do with that. We have got a lot of wires to hook up, so we are going to do it one step at a time. First off, we have got our 4-pole here, which will get run through the grommet to the inside and be stored by the jack storage compartment when we are not using it. But for now we are just going to go ahead and just tuck it down in the cavity here, just to get it out of our way. Next, this is the yellow wire this is what goes over to the drivers side of the vehicle. more
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Posted: 8/2/2009 10:57:46 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid - Video
Today on this 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid we are going to install part number 118426 from Tow Ready. This is a T-One wiring harness. First thing we need to do is open up the trunk area to get to the tail lights to get to the connections that we need to make. We need to remove these two screws right here and take off the tail light assembly. We are going to do this on both sides of the vehicle. Now we will go ahead and pop off the tail light. :25 more
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Posted: 8/13/2010 7:27:13 AM
Fifth Wheel and Gooseneck Wiring Harness - 2002 Ford F-250 - Video
Today on this 2002 Ford F-250 we are going to install part number 20110 from Tow Ready. This is Tow Readys fifth wheel or gooseneck 7 way tow harness. Basically what this does is act as an extension of your factory 7 way that is at the bumper of the vehicle, gets routed up underneath the vehicle to the side of the bed of the truck. This part is the 7-pole itself, it gets installed on the side of the bed. We are going to start off by making our hole in the side of the bed. :24 more
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Posted: 8/12/2010 5:40:58 AM
Fifth Wheel and Gooseneck Trailer Wiring Installation - 2000 Ford F-250 Super Duty - Video
Today on this 2000 Ford F-250 Super Duty we are going to install part number 20031 from Tow Ready, this is their 7-way adapter upgrade harness. What this will do is upgrade this 4-pole harness that is on the back of the vehicle right now and run it up to the bed since this truck is going to be a dedicated gooseneck truck. We are going to peel back the bed liner to see where we can drill through the bed. It is a good idea to drill through one of these parts here that is raised so it has maximum room for the connector once it is installed in the bed. This one is a little close to the tie down assembly and this one has got a tint in it so we will go with the third one over and use that to drill into. 00:38 more
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Posted: 1/6/2011 8:28:45 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2008 Ford Escape - Video
Today on this 2008 Ford Escape with tow package we will be installing wiring harness part number 118251. We are underneath the vehicle just on the driver side right behind the bumper. The plug in we are looking for to plug our wiring harness into is located right here. Most Escapes will have this plug here but if you do not have a tow package it likely will not be active. All we need to do is take and press the button on the top and that will allow us to unplug the harness away from the cap. We can then take our wiring harness and plug them together. 00:29 more
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Posted: 8/30/2010 5:10:45 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 2008 Ford Edge - Video
Today on this 2008 Ford Edge we are going to be installing wiring harness 118551. We are at the rear section of the vehicle, we are going to locate the ports that we will be plugging our wiring harness into. The ports are located directly behind the tail light assemblies on both the driver and passenger sides. The first thing we want to do is go ahead and remove both tail light assemblies. You can do so by removing the two screws that are holding it into place on the inboard side. Then you want to take it and gently rock back and fourth because we do need to release the outboard side clips as well. :29 more
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Posted: 7/23/2010 11:02:07 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 Ford Escape - Video
Today on this 2007 Ford Escape we are going to install part number 118426 from Tow Ready. The first step involved is to open up the tail gate latch and get behind the tail lights. Take off these two screws here for the tail light and then we will remove the tail light. The tail light pops off these two pins right here. We have got our tail light off. We are going to leave it connected for now. We are going to take our 4-pole and our modulite and we are going to that through the opening behind the bumper and out the bottom. We are also going to take the T-One connector with the green wire, that is going to go below too. Eventually this will go to the passenger side of the vehicle. 00:46 more
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Posted: 7/22/2010 10:11:04 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 2008 Ford Escape - Video
Today on this 2008 Ford Escape we are going to install part number 118551 from Tow Ready. This is our T-One wiring harness connector that is also a power converter. The first steps involved is opening the hatch of the vehicle and removing the two tail lights to get to our access points for our wiring connections. First we will take off the drivers side tail light. Just for now we are going to disconnect from the wire harness right here, this will actually be our connection points we are going to make. Then we will go over to the passenger side. :32 more
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Posted: 4/7/2010 5:55:14 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 1994 Ford Van - Video
Today on this 1994 Ford Full Size Van, Club Wagon, we are going to install part number 118343 from Tow Ready. This T-1 connector connects behind both tail lights. What we are going to do is first remove the tail lights. We are going to let this sit just like this and go over to the other side and do the same thing. :21 more
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Posted: 2/23/2010 12:14:43 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 Ford Escape - Video
Today on this 2009 Ford Escape, we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118551. We are at the rear of the vehicle with the rear cargo door open. The connection points for our wiring harness are going to be located directly behind the tail light assemblies on both sides. So we are going to start by removing both tail light assemblies. We can do that by removing the two Phillips head screws on the inboard side. We are going to gently pry back the the tail light assembly until the two outboard clips release. And with the tail light removed you can see the main black plug here on the back. That is the part we are going to be hooking our harness into. more
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Posted: 8/12/2009 10:03:12 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 Ford Edge - Video
Today on this 2009 Ford Edge we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118551. We are at the rear cargo area of the vehicle here. And we are going to go ahead and point out the mounting locations for our T- Connector. The connecting points are located directly behind the tail light assemblies. But to gain access to those we are actually going to be routing the wire from the interior, out through the grommet behind the tail light and then making our connections. So to get started we want to go ahead and disassemble the rear cargo area so that we have room to route our wires across. See I have already removed the cargo cover here. Okay then we also want to remove the rear threshold piece here and you can do that by just gently prying up on it to release the tabs that are holding it in. And that is going to allow us to pull back the interior panels here on each side. We want to remove the screw here at the end. We are going to do the same thing on the passenger side. more
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Posted: 8/12/2009 9:33:46 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2003 Ford Escape - Video
Today we are going to install part number 118343 from Tow Ready, and we are going to install this T-1 connector on a 2003 Ford Escape. First we will show you where the tail light connections are going to be. The connections are actually going to be physically on the back side of the tail light itself, and you are going to have to make connections on both sides of the vehicle. And what happens is that the wire harness is going to below a tail light, underneath the bumper, and out to the center of the hitch. So let us go ahead and get started. more
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Posted: 7/27/2009 3:40:09 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 1994 Ford F150 - Video
Today we are going to install part number 118316 from Tow Ready, and this is a T-1 connector we are going to install on a 1994 Ford pickup. This is the point in the harness that we need to split apart and attach our T connector. It is right behind the bumper on the drivers side. There is a little button you push down. It is kind of hard to see on the end. You push it down and it comes apart. And you just reinstall the T connector in the middle of it and then make sure you clip it back together. And it might be a good idea to go ahead and use a zip tie to tie it off somewhere, and that is pretty much all there is to it. Just route your 4-pole wire where you want it along the frame and out by the hitch. Just zip tie it to secure it to the frame and keep it from bouncing around. Then we can route our wire out to the hitch. We will just put it by the chain loop here. more
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Posted: 9/29/2008 6:29:44 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 Ford Five Hundred - Video
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Posted: 1/16/2012 11:34:37 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2010 Ford Flex - Video
Today on 2010 Ford Flex were going to start part # 118472 from Tow-Ready. First thing we need to do is go ahead and open up the back hatch to get access to tail lights. We need to remove our tail lights, remove the screw here and the screw here we'll lose on both sides. We need to disconnect our wiring harness from the tail light and push that on its tab right here, let's do the same thing on the passenger's side. Now I'll take our T-One harness over and drop the 4-Pole end down the bottom and we'll pull up from behind the bumper we'll do the same thing for this T-One Connector with the green wire are well. Now take your T-Connector and plug in to factory harness and your other move on to tail light were we reinstall it and then we'll take our white wire with the ring terminal and ground that to the body. more
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Posted: 1/12/2012 3:29:13 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2006 Ford Mustang GT - Video
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Posted: 1/6/2012 2:35:28 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 Ford Taurus - Video
Today on the 2009 Ford Taurus were going to be installing Wiring Harness part # 118447. Were starting off inside the trunk of our Taurus and were going to start up by locating the ports that were going to be plugging our wiring harness into. This ports are located on both the driver and passengers side of the vehicle behind the carpeting here in their basically mounted behind each one of the tail lights. So were going to need to remove a few things to gain access to those ports I'm going to start by removing this rear threshold piece first and there are several fasteners that are holding it in into the place. You remove the push pin fasters and I'm going to be using a basic ribit removal tool if you don't have one of these you can just use a flatted screw driver. We got some screw to tie down points and again pop-out the fasteners at the top. more
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Posted: 12/16/2011 10:49:47 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2011 Ford Explorer - Video
Today we are working on the 2011 Ford Explorer. We are going to install the tow ready T-One connector part number 118540. First step is to locate the manufacturers connection point on the passenger side of both of the exhausts inside the fender well. Then were going to press the locking tab and disconnect the two connection points. Now we can take our tow ready connector which will have identical plugs on either end matching the manufacturers. And we will plug it in line with the manufactures wiring. more
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Posted: 12/15/2011 2:10:30 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 2000 Ford Explorer - Video
Today we are working on a 2000 Ford Explorer. We will be installing Tow Ready T-One Connector part number 118241. With this particular application, the simple plug in place style. We will locate the vehicle tow connector, brand new out of the factory. There will be a plug on this that will need to be removed first. With our application, the plug has already been removed. We can simply take our new Tow Ready Connector and see that it matches up with the manufacturer plug and connect them together. We are now ready to route our 4 pole connector. 0:31 more
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Posted: 7/21/2011 1:12:44 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2001 Ford Taurus - Video
Today we are working on a 2001 Ford Taurus. We will be installing Tow Ready T-one connector part number 118375. First we will need to access the trunk of the vehicle. We are going to remove the spare tire well cover. Next we are going to remove the rear threshold. To do that, we have a total of five fasteners. We have a cargo hook here and one identical on the passenger side. Then we will remove the three push button fasteners across the bottom. Alright, with our three fasteners removed, I am just going to pull out on the bottom of our threshold here. Slowly work it up. With our rear threshold removed, we can pull the carpeting back and expose the rear taillight wiring. Here is our connector. Pull out a little bit on the locking tab. Disconnect them. We will take our green wire connector and plug it in line with the manufacturers wiring harness. Make sure you press them firmly in place until the locking tabs reconnect. 0:57 more
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Posted: 6/22/2011 1:53:09 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 Ford Taurus X - Video
Today we are working on a 2009 Ford Taurus X. We will be installing wiring harness, part number 118448. Our first step is going to be gaining access to the rear compartment of the vehicle. Our next step is to then remove the rear threshold. Remove two pins on the lower side of the threshold. I have my cargo hooks up and out of the way, now we should be able to work the threshold trim piece off of the plastic fasteners that are holding it. Gently pry up on it, enough to release the fasteners. :39 more
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Posted: 5/27/2011 11:46:25 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2006 Ford Freestar - Video
Today on this 2006 Ford Freestar we are going to install part number 118385 from Tow Ready. This is their T-One wiring harness. The first thing we need to do is go ahead and open up the rear hatch and remove the two taillights. There are two screws on top that we need to remove. To remove the light, pull straight back and there is a latch on the side as well. OK, with the taillight removed, we have two wire connections here. And our T- connector will fit in right here on this particular part. We will disconnect the taillight and go over on the passenger side and repeat the same process. Alright, next we need to remove this grommet right here. Do not take it off, but just pull it out because we are going to run some wires through the inside. OK, with our grommet, we are just going to cut a slit into it. Alright, then we will go to the interior of the vehicle and remove the jack storage panel. 0:52 more
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Posted: 5/19/2011 3:22:38 AM
Wiring Harness Installation - 2005 Ford Freestar - Video
Today on this 2005 Ford Freestar we are going to install part number 118385 from Tow Ready. The first thing we need to do is get inside the vehicle and remove some interior panels and also the taillights. What is going to happen is we are going to remove the panel for the jack storage. We are going to loosen this panel up and the opposite panel on the other side. Alright, now we will remove the panel here. We will use a trim panel tool to help pop up the latches and work our way across. Ok, let us loosen up these interior panels. We do not have to take them off just loose enough to work with. And now we can go ahead and loosen up the taillights. Now we will go ahead and remove the taillights. It is kind of tricky. Kind of pull down a little bit on the top, loosen them up and then pull out on the outside edge. We are just going to let that sit along the side for now, just like that. We just got done with the passenger side. We will do the same thing with the driver side. 1:01 more
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Posted: 3/14/2011 12:22:22 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 Ford Edge - Video
Today on this 2007 Ford Edge we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118551. We are going to start our installation for our wiring harness inside the rear cargo area of the Ford Edge. The ports are located behind the tail lights but we are going to route the wires inside the vehicle. We are going to start by removing the cargo floor and if you lift the handle and pull away this floor cover comes off. Next take the large styrofoam sections around the spare tire and pull those away and these have friction pins holding them at the bottom so gently rock them back and forth and you can get that to release. 00:35 more
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Posted: 1/18/2011 4:26:06 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 2010 Ford Fusion - Video
Today on this 2010 Ford Fusion we are going to install part number 118422 from Tow Ready. The first thing we need to do is get inside the trunk area of the vehicle and remove some of the interior components. Go ahead and lift the floor and get it out of the way. Next, we need to remove the rear threshold right here. Remove the plastic rivets that hold everything in place. With everything loosened we can pull straight up on the threshold. It should pop loose. :41 more
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Posted: 7/27/2010 11:14:19 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2003 Ford Crown Victoria - Video
Today on this 2003 Ford Crown Victoria we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 119175KIT. We are in the trunk of the Crown Victoria and we want to locate the wires that we are going to need to tap into to power our wiring harness . We can actually access all of the wires over on the driver side of the vehicle behind the carpeting just behind the tail light assembly. To gain access to it we are going to need to remove a few pieces. There are a couple of fasteners holding the carpeting in place. There is one large one right here and then one smaller one here. For a little more clearance room I am going to remove this push pin here as well. To get a little more room I am going to remove the rear threshold cover and we have got four push pins holding it in place. Then we just pull the carpeting back. 00:57 more
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Posted: 5/27/2010 12:33:12 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2000 Ford Taurus - Video
Today on this 2000 Ford Taurus we are going to install part number 118375. This T-1 connector is going to install inside the vehicle, inside the trunk area. So the first thing we are going to have to do is go ahead and open up the trunk. We do have to take out some interior panels to get to the connections. The bottom mat above the spare tire, we are going to take out this threshold right here. Pull that out and lift it straight up. Go ahead and pull the liner back here and heres our wire connection right in front. :36 more
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Posted: 12/23/2009 7:01:09 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 1999 Ford Crown Victoria - Video
Today we are going to be installing tail light converter part number 119175 on a 1999 Ford Crown Victoria. OK, we are inside the trunk of the vehicle, and to locate the wires that we are going to need to tap into for the harness, we are going to need to remove a few pieces from the trunk area. We need to remove this rear threshold piece, and then we will need to pull back the carpeting as well, that is right behind the tail light assembly. The threshold piece has four clips that we are going to need to remove that will allow us to pull it off. And the carpeting has one screw holding it on. So we are going to go ahead and remove those first. And we should be able to gain access to all the wires necessary over here on the drivers side. You can see the main lead going over to the passengers side is right here. OK, now that we have got the carpeting pulled back, you can see we have got the main wiring harness here feeding the drivers side tail light assembly, and we have got the harness that is coming across for the the passengers side assembly. more
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Posted: 6/18/2009 3:11:07 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2008 Ford Taurus X - Video
Today on this 2008 Ford Taurus X, we will be installing wiring harness part number 118448. We are inside the rear hatch of the Taurus. The connection points for our harness are going to be both on the drivers and passengers sides. Directly behind these panels. So we will start by removing this piece first. As you can see here at the bottom, we have got two push pin connectors here that we will need to remove first. We can kind of flip up the cargo hooks here. We should be able to gently rock this back and forth and we are going to try to release these clips here on the top side. It pops right off there. We also need to remove from each interior panel the two tie down hooks here for our cargo net. So we just want to get in there, and we can use a flathead screwdriver or pry tool and pry that back and you will hear the clips release. more
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Posted: 9/16/2009 6:30:16 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2005 Ford Mustang - Video
What we have here is a 4 pole flat car end, 16 inches long and includes 4 wiring caps. This is going to be installed on a 2005 Ford Mustang. We need to get the access to the wiring. So the first thing we need to do is take out this bottom tray or carpeting here. You have to take off this back panel here to get access to the wiring. Once that is out of the way we can start taking these fasteners off this back panel here and then take it off to get to the wiring. This is the wiring harness that is actually going to the tail light lens. So what we need to do is strip away our wires here so we can figure out which wire is our turn signal or running light. Since we have to hardwire this, we have to test to see what wire does what. So basically we will just use our ground tester to the existing ground on the body. more
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Posted: 8/8/2008 3:52:27 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2006 Ford E350 Van - Video
Theres no market product that will plug into the factory tow harness, so well have to make our own and splice into it. The tow harness is about two or three feet on the frame rail on the drivers side so what well do is take this and extend it down out to the frame rail to match up to it. Today were only going to worry about four pole end, were not going to install the brakes or the hot lead. Were going to install this on the factory ground on the frame more
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Posted: 8/7/2008 11:31:25 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2005 Ford Escape - Video
Today we are going to install part number 40455 from Hoppe. We are going to install this on a 2005 Ford Escape. This particular vehicle has a tow package. Not all vehicles come with a tow package but this one does so we will show you what to look for if yours does. To find the Tow Package port it is on this bracket facing the inside of the bumper. It is a pain to see so you have to kinda feel around for it while looking for it. You pull it loose then remove this little cap here. Then our part comes with a little bit of dielectric grease. Go ahead and squirt some of that on the plug. It will not take much just put a little bit on. Then you can press it back together. Then the rest of this will go out to your hitch. At that point take your excess wire and zip tie it to whatever you can behind the bumper. Leave what you need out for your trailer hitch. I like to leave it right by the chain here and zip tie it behind this bracket here. That way if you ever need excess it will be easy to get too. more
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Posted: 8/8/2008 4:07:04 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2002 Ford Taurus - Video
Today we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118375 on a 2002 Ford Taurus. We are inside the trunk area here, and we are going to go ahead and point out the mounting location for the wiring harness. The plugs for the harness are actually located behind the tail lights, behind the interior paneling here. To gain access to these plugs we need to remove this back threshold piece, which is held in with two thumbscrews, one on each side here, and then three push plugs as well. So when we go ahead and remove that piece, that will allow us to pull back the felt here and gain access to the plugs. So we are going to go ahead and do that now. more
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Posted: 2/23/2009 10:05:35 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 1996 Ford Explorer - Video
Today we are going to install part number 118241 from Tow Ready on our 1996 Ford Explorer. This one has a tow package on the vehicle and we will show you how to identify it. On our 1996 model here we have the actual tow package is located right here. It is pretty handy it basically plugs in and you are ready to go. However some other models it could be under one of the tail lights. It should be on either the left or right side. On those models they usually have the plug sometimes on both sides. One of them is active and one of them is not. This is about here sometimes you will find this plug also it could be here or it could be on the driver side. Simply plug it in then route the harness the way you want on the way to the opposite side. We will use zip ties to hold everything in place. There you have it for part number 118241 from Tow Ready. Install on our 1996 Ford Explorer. more
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Posted: 8/8/2008 3:55:33 AM
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