SilverRam01

Guys;

My 7 pole plug was extremely coroded, and had a few broken poles when I bought the truck.

I went to wal-mart and just purchased a new 7 pole plug. Get home,.....and find on the back of my factory plug, I've got 9 wires going into the back of the old plug. All seemingly soldered into the factory plug.

I snipped em all off with my side cutters, and proceded to wire my new plug in. I've run into a hitch however,.... using a test light and checking each of the 9 wires by hand, I've found the colors do not coordinate with the colors on the back of my new plug. No big deal, because I've found a chart which tells me which pole each wire goes too. I now have my tail lights, rt, lt, and rev light wired in. My trouble is that I have 5 wires remaining that I dont have a clue what to do with. I have a red wire that is continuosly hot, a blue wire, and a couple brownish wires remaining. Not too mention, my trailer lights are not working? I assume one of my brown wires is a ground,.......but have tried wiring each of the 2-3 brown wires into my plug, and none have produced any results.

Clear as mud? LOL.

Any insight ?

Thanks.

SilverRam01

Gotter done. Seems that I had one extra ground wire, (total of 8 not 9 wires).

Should be good to go.

marks2500

this is how mine is so i hope it works for you ,
red=12v charging - top right terminal
white=ground - bottom left terminal
yellow=left turn - middle left terminal
green=right turn - middle right terminal
brown=park lights - top left terminal
blue=reverse lights - large middle
i know you said you had a diagram to go off of, just giving you something to cross reffrence. i also have somewhere written down the trucks stock color wires to splice into, to wire the 7 pole up. i will look for it.

marks2500

you wired it up faster than i could type

SilverRam01

Thanks for the help Mark! I found that I had the plug wired backwards.....or upside down. I switched everything around, and it worked fine.

Thanks again!!

neveragain

Now that you finished it buy a container of Vaseline and fill it full this will stop MOST of the corrosion mine has been good for 5 years now so far and have just plugged it in and away we go ( just broken lights).

SilverRam01

Actually, I sprayed a good coat of electrical anti-corrosion over the terminals,.....tightened the collar gromet, and then filled the back collar with silicone. Smoothed her out nice and pretty.......hopefully wont have to bother with it again for a few years.

Thanks for the tips!