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Tow Ready Replacement 7-Way Harness and Socket for Factory Tow Package
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Tow Ready Replacement 7-Way Harness and Socket for Factory Tow Package
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Tow Ready Wiring - 20147
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Replace your damaged OEM 7-way wiring harness and socket with this Tow Ready harness. Splices into your factory tow package wiring with the included butt connectors. 7-Way trailer connector sold separately.
Features:
- Replaces damaged factory 7-way wiring harness and socket
- 7-Way trailer connector (sold separately) plugs into socket
- Hardwires into vehicle with included butt connectors
- Limited 3-year warranty
20147 Tow Ready Replacement Harness for USCAR Factory Tow Package - 7-Way - OEM
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Video Transcript for Tow Ready Replacement 7-Way Harness Review
Hi there, towing enthusiasts. Today we're going to be taking a look at Tow Ready's replacement seven-pole pigtail harness. This replacement harness will work with any seven-way connector that uses a standard round plug at the back. So if you have a damaged harness on your vehicle, you can simply buy this, cut out your old wiring and splice in your new harness. What else I like about this harness is that it comes with heat shrink butt connectors for all of our connections, and they provided the appropriate sizes, as some of your wires on your seven-pole use larger diameter wires. So we've got our yellow butt connector here for the heavier gauge wiring and blue butt connectors for our lighter gauge wiring.
By utilizing heat shrink butt connectors, instead of your standard butt connector, our replacement harness is going to have a significantly longer life, because we're going to be keeping all the moisture out from inside of our connections when we splice them together, which is going to result in corrosion not occurring. Whereas if you use standard butt connectors, moisture can easily get down in there and cause your connections to deteriorate quite rapidly.We're replacing the factory harness on our motor home here because we have damaged wiring and missing pins in our connector. We would need a fully operational seven way on this. So we're just going to cut out this old one, getting rid of these wires here on this side, where we had one that was already damaged. We've already cut it here.
And we're going to put our new one in. Now one of the things you're going to notice is the color wires. Now this does have all the same color wires on our factory connector here, but they are in different locations and that's not uncommon on your motor homes and some of your vehicles to have wire color coatings not in the standard position. So since they do have the same colors, but they're in different positions, we can't just simply take these wires, cut them and then match our colors back up because then our pins are going to be in the wrong location.So what I'd recommend you do rather than trying to match colors on any vehicle is to just do them one wire at a time. So that way you can verify you're putting the correct wire in the correct location.
So if we hold them up here side by side, we can see them here. I've already cut this wire, which was a blue wire on our factory connector. And that does match up with the blue wire here on our new connector. But if we go to the left one pin, we've got a brown wire on our new connector and it's a green wire on our factory connector. So we already know that when I cut this green wire here, I'm going to have to splice it to the brown wire on this connector for it to be in the exact same pin location and give us the same operation that we had before.So since our blue wire was already damaged, I've already got it cut here.
We're going to start with that one. We already verified that the blue wire here did match up with the blue on our connector. So we're going to strip back on the other side here, because this is where we're going to be connecting our new connector to. We'll now take our new harness. We've got the blue wire here. We've pre-crimped on butt connectors on all of those wires. Now I'm going to connect to the other end of the butt connector for the blue wire to the blue wire that we had cut here. Once we get this wire crimped, we're then just going to repeat this process that we did before of holding our connectors up to one another, looking at the wire colors side by side at the back, making sure you've got them the same, because I do want to point this out too.There's a little tab there that you think that's maybe the release tab. This is the release tab here. So don't get these confused and hold them up with the release tab and this other little tab there. You want to make sure you've got the same tabs when you're doing this as well.So we're just going to move on one at a time, cutting and crimping on our new wires now. Now that we've got all of our wires connected, all we need to do is heat shrink down our butt connectors. So we're going to grab a heat gun and then just heat all those up and they'll shrink down. Once you've got all of your wires heat shrink down, then simply plug your round connector into the back of your seven-pole.And that completes our look at Tow Ready's Replacement Pigtail Harness for your seven-way connector.
Customer Reviews
Tow Ready Replacement 7-Way Harness and Socket for Factory Tow Package - 20147
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (44 Customer Reviews)
Replace your damaged OEM 7-way wiring harness and socket with this Tow Ready harness. Splices into your factory tow package wiring with the included butt connectors. 7-Way trailer connector sold separately.
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by: James P09/12/2019
Well I fixed my brake control problem on my Ford F-250 Super Duty. I learned how to bench test my Tekonsha 9030 Voyager brake control from your website and ruled it out, then I focused on the wiring harness at the hitch. The 7 way plug worked in the bed at the fifth wheel, but not at the hitch. I checked for continuity at the wire harness connector and the 7 way plug and discovered that the connector end of the harness was bad. I ordered the splice in style Tow Ready Replacement 7-Way Harness and Socket for Factory Tow Package and that solved the issue. I found that the corresponding wires on the replacement were not all the colors as the corresponding OEM wires, so I matched them up by position without further issue. I pleased with the outcome and price I paid for the product. 702940
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by: Eric01/20/2021
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by: Ju01/15/2021
When all the auto stores said it was a junk yard only item because not even the dealership would sell the pigtail, etrailer.com proved them wrong. My pigtail was corroded and I didn't want to spend hours trying to find another one at the junk yard. It looks and feel just like factory minus where I had to join them together. 938282
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by: John W01/13/2021
What I needed and it worked well. 1 year later and I haven't had any issues. 937253
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by: Robert01/10/2021
After being told by the Ford dealer ship that I could not buy just the oem pig tail wiring harness which someone kindly cut from under my truck I was upset because the wiring harness was very expensive to buy and replace Finding this product and the ease of wiring it in to my truck for pennies compared to buying the whole harness was great. The only down side was using the usps for shipping and it took several days longer to get the order. 936125
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by: Eric12/27/2020
Honestly the wiring harness could been Longer so I can hook directly to my junction box , but other wise worked as stated come with clear wiring diagram 931285
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by: Kevin12/13/2020
So glad I purchased this item before we took our motorhome on it's first trip! The one that was on it would not have worked with our Jeep. Great product and customer service. 922665
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by: Patrick12/03/2020
Harness was exactly what I needed. Website was pretty Easy to use in terms of making sure I bought the right part including multiple pictures to really Make things clear. It came with all the butt splice connectors needed and they’re even heat shrink sealable which is a huge bonus. Highly recommended! I’ll be back here for more products in the future. Wish I bought the other parts here 918775
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by: Jason11/03/2020
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by: Christopher10/28/2020
Fast service and great fitment. Thanks! 904968
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by: Jordan10/27/2020
Works well 904632
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by: Herbert10/02/2020
Good price and delivered in a timely fa shion. 896109
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by: Eric09/25/2020
worked perfect. easy hookup. heavy duty. better replacement than factory. can't go wrong with this setup. 892505
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by: Marcus09/20/2020
In searching for a replacement part I immediately came to your website of course. There were two separate videos. One video describing the part and another actually installing the part. Very informative. The part was perfect and installed exactly as video showed. Thank you very much for all your informative videos. 884008
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by: Joe08/06/2020
My package was accidentally shipped to the wrong address and e trailer took care of it immediately, and I recieved my order in a few days. Very pleased 857217
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by: Robert07/13/2020
Good product, fast shipping, colors of each wire was not exact for 2011 Silverado but it's easy to use placement of wire to figure out which wire connects to current wires on truck, total install time of about an hour if you really take your time. 837060
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by: Joe K07/11/2020
Perfect product good quality 831566
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by: Matt07/02/2020
After 1 year of use it is still working A+ 826207
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by: Paul M06/15/2020
Worked great for me. I used it to build a trailer light breakout box to test the brakes and lights without the trailer needing to be hooked up to a tow vehicle. 815395
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by: Jd06/10/2020
worked as advertised, been using it for a year now without any issues. 811164
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by: Elisabeth05/31/2020
This connector and pigtail was the perfect fit on my Ford F150 vehicle harness. Easy to install with video instructions. Loved the heat shrink butt connectors that came with it! 805887
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by: Justin05/12/2020
Installs easy fits great 13 3500 gmc 796210
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by: Kyle05/09/2020
Fits good and there is enough pigtail to wire 794296
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by: Cody04/13/2020
Haven't wired up yet but the plug does fit my existing one. Bought to replace on 06 f250 female coming from truck..if wires match up it will be saving me $100 from the dealer... 778410
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by: Tom03/23/2020
Worked great 769794
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