Brake control wiring adapter?
04-05-2010, 05:28 PM
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Brake control wiring adapter?
'05 STX 4.6L SCAB 4X4
I am ordering a brake control and I see that you can get a wiring adapter, vehicle specific, for under $15. Has anybody used these? It sounds like a good item if it plugs into an existing harness on the vehicle. Do you have to run wire to the rear of the truck or does the standard factory harness have the wires already in there, just not used? Is there a schematic anywhere that I could study? My owner's manual shows electric trailer brakes in position 105, 30A cartridge fuse, in the fuse box/power dist. I assume the adapter plugs into there??
I am ordering a brake control and I see that you can get a wiring adapter, vehicle specific, for under $15. Has anybody used these? It sounds like a good item if it plugs into an existing harness on the vehicle. Do you have to run wire to the rear of the truck or does the standard factory harness have the wires already in there, just not used? Is there a schematic anywhere that I could study? My owner's manual shows electric trailer brakes in position 105, 30A cartridge fuse, in the fuse box/power dist. I assume the adapter plugs into there??
04-05-2010, 05:30 PM
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'05 STX 4.6L SCAB 4X4
I am ordering a brake control and I see that you can get a wiring adapter, vehicle specific, for under $15. Has anybody used these? It sounds like a good item if it plugs into an existing harness on the vehicle. Do you have to run wire to the rear of the truck or does the standard factory harness have the wires already in there, just not used? Is there a schematic anywhere that I could study? My owner's manual shows electric trailer brakes in position 105, 30A cartridge fuse, in the fuse box/power dist. I assume the adapter plugs into there??
I am ordering a brake control and I see that you can get a wiring adapter, vehicle specific, for under $15. Has anybody used these? It sounds like a good item if it plugs into an existing harness on the vehicle. Do you have to run wire to the rear of the truck or does the standard factory harness have the wires already in there, just not used? Is there a schematic anywhere that I could study? My owner's manual shows electric trailer brakes in position 105, 30A cartridge fuse, in the fuse box/power dist. I assume the adapter plugs into there??
04-05-2010, 07:16 PM
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The plug and play kit is for a prewired truck. One way or another your going to need to run the wires. I doubt your trucks prewired and the only way to use any kind of adapter/harness/plug/kit is to have the wires already run to that point. Just get some wires and get started. It's easy. Would take a couple hours total. The shop I work at charges $350 to setup a non-wired truck (not including actual brake controller) and we are the most expensive around here. That's including all wires, 30a resetable breaker, and whatever fuse/relay the charge line would require. Also we use heat shrink on all connections and carefully secure all lines.
04-06-2010, 11:14 AM
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Are all 05 F150s equipped with wiring already in place for a brake control, even if they do not have the tow package and only the 4 wire plug? Is there a blue brake wire on the other side of the 4 wire harness that you would splice into so that you would not have to pull wire? Also are all these F150s equipped with an OEM plug under the dash so that you just plug in the adapter from the controller?
04-06-2010, 11:30 AM
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My truck came with a factory harness...do you need it ??
04-06-2010, 11:38 AM
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04-06-2010, 12:21 PM
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04-06-2010, 12:27 PM
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Done deal
04-06-2010, 12:56 PM
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My '96 F250 has a factory harness. Would that be the same for an '05 F150, interchangeable? Are the color codes the same? That way I could get an idea of how I want to do this.