Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2008 GMC Acadia - Video
Today we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118451 on a 2008 GMC Acadia. OK, we are here at the back side of the vehicle and the attaching points for our wiring harness are actually located directly behind the tail light assemblies themselves on both sides of the vehicle. So the first thing we want to do is to go ahead and remove them. There are two black caps on each one of the assemblies. You need to pop those back, and that will give us access to the fasteners that are holding the tail light assembly on. We are going to remove those fasteners and pull the tail light assembly off to gain access to the connectors themselves. We just take a little flatheaded screwdriver and pop that right back. And as you can see, there is a regular hex head screw in there. And you want to be careful when you are doing that to make sure you do not break the locking tabs. And we are just going to take a little 7-millimeter socket here and remove the bolts. With both screws removed, we want to go ahead and gently pry away the tail light assembly. There are two aligning tabs here on the back side. You want to make sure that those do not break. You just want to gently kind of wiggle it back and forth until they release. more
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Posted: 3/24/2009 11:18:55 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2001 GMC Safari - Video
Today on this 2001 GMC Safari we are going to be installing four pole harness part number 18002. We are in the rear cargo area of the Safari here and this particular vehicle has a factory installed tow package on it. The tow package is located over here on the passenger side of the vehicle inside the jack storage compartment. Remove the door and look under the jack, you can see there is a bundle of wires here. This is our tow package :25 more
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Posted: 6/27/2010 7:55:29 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2005 GMC Safari - Video
Today we are going to install part number 18172 from Tow Ready. It is a 4-pole wiring harness. This is the part that gets hard-wired into the vehicle. And we are going to install this on a 2005 GMC Safari. To wire up this vehicle what we are going to have to do is get behind the tail light - get behind both tail lights. What is going to happen here on the passengers side here - we are going to take it off, and then we are going to run our wires down to the bottom of the vehicle. So we will go ahead here and start taking off the tail lights at this point. more
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Posted: 8/4/2009 6:30:05 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2012 GMC Canyon - Video
Today in this 2012 GMC Canyon were going to install the Hopkins 4-Pole Wiring Kit part# 41165. The 4-Pole Wiring Kit installs in line with the manufacturer's wiring. First we'll disconnect the manufacturer's plug here above the spare tire, now we can go ahead and take our new 4-Pole Connector and plug it in line with the manufacturer's wiring. Once we get it plugged in we can go ahead and route our wiring and mount the converter box. To mount the converter box I'm just going to use a black zip tie and attach it directly to the frame. Then I can route my 4-Pole Connector over to the hitch. more
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Posted: 1/20/2012 2:13:29 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2012 GMC Canyon - Video
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Posted: 1/20/2012 2:12:55 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2012 GMC Canyon - Video
Today in this 2012 GMC Canyan were going to install the Tow-Ready T-One Connector part # 118301. Our first step is to get underneath the vehicle and disconnect the manufacturer's connection to the rear tail lights. This connector here above the spare tire on the driver side is the one we'll need to disconnect and take our Tow-Ready connector and plug it in line with it, just like that. Now we need to take our white wire with the ring terminal which is our ground wire and make our connection there. For this application there's already a ground stud to the frame here above the spare tire. I'm going to go ahead and take out bolt and add my white wire with the ring terminal. more
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Posted: 1/20/2012 2:12:04 PM
Pollak Twist-In Trailer Connector Installation - 2007 GMC Sierra - Video
Today were working on 2007 GMC Sierra. Were going to install the Pollack 7-Pole Connector part # pk11916. Before we remove the knockout here in the bumper I'm go ahead and get disconnect the current harness that's connected to the knockout behind the bumper. For the easy in installation of shooting this video we've going to have removed this bare tire and you see the connector goes into the knockout here. At the top side of the harness connector is a locking pin make sure you'd pressed it before trying to remove. You'll see here is a lock now we've it removed we go and take the knockout out of the bumper. more
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Posted: 11/21/2011 10:53:05 AM
Pollak Twist-In Trailer Connector Installation - 2010 GMC Sierra - Video
Today we are working on a 2010 GMC Sierra. We are going to install a 7 pole connector by Pollack, part number pk11916. Our first step is to get underneath the vehicle here and locate the current manufacturers harness. On the top side of this, you will notice a bump out in the round connector, theres a lock on the back side of that connector, you will need to press and disconnect. Now I am going to go ahead and let the vehicle down and take a look at the outside part of the current connector. This piece is just a knock out, its where our new connector is going to mount its not an actual connector at this time. more
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Posted: 11/4/2011 2:07:48 PM
Pollak Twist-In Trailer Connector Installation - 2009 GMC Sierra - Video
Today on this 2009 GMC Sierra, we are going to be installing the Pollak 7-Pole Twist-In Style Connecter. Okay, we are here at the rear bumper of our Sierra, and if you look here, mounted is a dummy plug for our connector. We are going to twist this out and plug our new connector right in line to it. So to remove our knockout plug, if you go to the outside outboard side of it here, you can see that there is a little tab there. We press that in. We just want to go ahead and rotate the plug, and pull it right out of there. Attached on the back side is the connector for our tow package. If you look right on top here, there is a little release tab. Press that in, and go ahead and separate the two pieces. 0:44 more
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Posted: 10/11/2011 3:03:22 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2008 GMC Acadia - Video
Today we are working on a 2008 GMC Acadia. We will be installing Tow Ready T-one connector part number 118451. Our first step will be to access the rear cargo area of the vehicle. We are going to remove these two tabs and the bolts underneath them so that we can remove the taillight lens. We will repeat this process on both sides. OK, you can see we have uncovered the two hold down bolts. We are going to go ahead and remove them now. OK, now that we have our hold downs removed, I am going to go ahead and pop the lens assembly off of the vehicle. You can see here is our taillight wiring. We are going to go ahead and disconnect it from the lens now also. It may be necessary to take a small screw driver just to help pull the locking tab back while you disconnect it. Be very gentile as to not break the locking tab. We will go ahead and set out lens assembly aside for now and we will repeat the same process on the passenger side. 0:59 more
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Posted: 9/26/2011 3:27:54 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation- 2011 GMC Acadia - Video
Today we will be working on a 2011 GMC Acadia, installing Tow Ready T-One connector part number 118451. We will start by accessing the rear cargo area of the vehicle. There are two fastening points for the tail light lens that needs to be removed. We are going to do that now. We will pop the driver side tail light lens out, you can see the manufacturers connector. It may be necessary to use a small screwdriver. We are going to pry up on the locking tab and disconnect the wire. We want to do it gently to make sure we do not break the tab. :42 more
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Posted: 9/9/2011 6:01:23 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2001 GMC Sonoma - Video
Today on this 2001 GMC Sonoma we are going to install part number 118359 from Tow Ready. This is their T-one wiring harness. The first thing we need to do is separate the factory connectors which are on the driver side frame rail. We pull back on this latch right here and pull it apart. OK, take the T-harness and let us plug them back together. Now we will take our ground screw and run it right directly to the frame. We will just take our wire harness now and we are just going to route it over to the center of the hitch. Within a matter of minutes we are finished with our install. And there you have it for part number 118359. more
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Posted: 5/24/2011 7:29:27 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2010 GMC Acadia - Video
Today on this 2010 GMC Acadia we are going to install part number 118451 from Tow Ready. The first thing we need to do is open up the back hatch. Next what we are going to do is go ahead and remove the two cover-ups for the screws here. That way we can unbolt the taillight. We are going to do this on both sides of the vehicle. Then we will go ahead and completely remove the taillights by disconnecting right here. It is a tight fit but you have to pull up on this tab right here and pull it apart. Alright, we have our passenger side done. We will repeat the same process on the driver side. Next we are going to take the 4-pole from the T-one and just it behind the body work here and out the bottom of the bumper. 0:48 more
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Posted: 5/19/2011 6:18:40 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 GMC Sierra 1500 - Video
Today on this 2009 GMC Sierra 1500 series we are going to be installing the twist-in 7-pole connector part number PK11916. We are at the rear of the vehicle and we are just left of the license plate. Newer Silverados and Sierras have the built in hole for the 7-pole connector right in the bumper. What we have in place right now is a dummy plug so we are going to remove that and plug our connector in line. What we need to do to remove the dummy plug is if you look on the outboard side there is a little tab. Take a flat head screwdriver and press that in and take and turn the dummy plug counter clockwise and then pull it right out. 00:39 more
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Posted: 9/8/2010 8:26:33 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 GMC Acadia - Video
Today on this 2009 GMC Acadia we are going to be installing part number 118451 from Tow Ready. We are at the rear of the vehicle now and we are going to be removing the driver side and passenger side tail lights. We are on the driver side right now. We are going to pop these plastic caps out that are protecting our screws so pop those off and we will have lanyard that is holding them in position. We are going to remove the bolts that are holding in our tail light. It is going to be the same on the passenger side as well. Then we are just going to pull out our tail light assembly and disconnect it. Take this tab here and pull it back and it will pop out. We are going to set the tail light aside and we are going to remove the passenger side tail light as well. 00:46 more
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Posted: 6/16/2010 7:27:23 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2003 GMC Savana Van - Video
Today on this 2003 GMC Savana Van we are going to be installing tow package wiring harness part number 118240. The tow package port on this GMC Savana is located inside the rear cargo area behind the interior panel here on the passenger side. We need to remove a few fasteners here to gain access to it, there are a few buttons here that are covering the fasteners. We just want to take a screwdriver and pop those off. You should be able to gain access by removing just these two fasteners, but if need be you can remove the third one up top here. :29 more
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Posted: 6/11/2010 10:33:52 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2007 GMC Canyon - Video
Today we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118301 on a 2007 GMC Canyon. All right, we are underneath the vehicle now, and we have removed the spare tire to gain a little more access. Over here on the drivers side frame rail, we are at the rear end, where the first cross member meets the frame, you can see the plug-in right here. And that is the plug that we are going to be using to plug our T-harness into. To disconnect the harness, we just want to depress the button here and pull them apart. And then we simply want to take our T-connector and plug it in line. You want to push it in until you hear the click. more
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Posted: 5/19/2009 8:03:55 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2006 GMC Sierra - Video
Today we are going to install a 4-pole and 7-pole connector by Hoppy, part number 30955, on a 2006 GMC Sierra. This wiring connector that we are installing goes right into the factory connector. So I would start with lowering the spare tire for good visibility. You are going to want to take the existing wiring down so you can use this excess slack to run it to the bumper so you can mount the connector. Once you get the wiring harness taken down and the cap pulled off, then you are going to need to mount your mounting bracket to the bumper. Once you find a good location, mount the bracket with the self-tapping screws. more
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Posted: 2/16/2009 10:55:20 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 1998 GMC Jimmy - Video
We are going to go ahead and install part number 18002. Which is the Draw Tight 4 pole flat onto this 1998 GMC Jimmy. Right now we are underneath the vehicle. We have already put the hitch on here. As far as the wiring goes about 90 percent of the Chevy Blazers and GMC Jimmys have the tow package on them. It is that bundle of wires that attached to the backside of the bumper with zip tie. Those are all the wires we are going to need to attach the 4 pole too. So what we are going to do is go ahead and clip the zip tie here. Then release these wires and as you can see they give you a substantial amount of lead. Again the 4 pole flat connector we will be using is made by Draw Tight and is part number 18002. more
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:13:22 AM
