Harbor Freight lighting instructions for 4x8 trailer

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F Baer

8 жыл бұрын

This video may help you get your lights going on your new trailer.

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@erlingholm 5 жыл бұрын

Thank You!!! I built a Ironton 4ft. x 8ft. Folding Utility Trailer Kit which is nearly identical to your Harbor Freight model. The rear lights wouldn't work at all while the front side running lights worked fine. I saw your video and decided to do a quick test; ran a wire from the small white ground wire connection straight back to one of the rear light bolts. Sure enough you were right! That light worked in all states (blinker light, brake light, steady red running light) with that ground wire. Now I'll fix it up permanently like you showed. You've saved me countless hours of troubleshooting, customer support, and who knows where else. Thanks again!

@majordog85 2 жыл бұрын

Giving you a like cause you made me laugh 😆. " if I need help your not available " that is a good one.

@sshtcss 5 жыл бұрын

If you have any questions I’m not available - lol 😝 ... thanks for the vid.

@AerialLensVideo 6 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! I followed the HF instructions and my dashboard lights went crazy! Then, after doing what you have explained here, everything is good! Really appreciate it!

@blakebjorn1396 3 жыл бұрын

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@carlmclemore1555 Жыл бұрын

Right on, man! Right to business!

@backhoejoe 2 жыл бұрын

Thank U brother love u much u helped me alot

@robertgeorge2710 3 жыл бұрын

i like the weed growing in the back!

@dwightstewart7181 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Harbor Freight uses the vehicle (trailer) frame as the ground, just as every manufacturer does with their cars and trucks.

@fbaer4686 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making that a little more clear.

@dwightstewart7181 5 жыл бұрын

The Baer Brothers .. The biggest problem is the tilt feature. Until the paint wears off (metal to metal), it's going to be hard to get a good electrical ground connection through that. One option is a short jumper wire between the frame and tongue arm at that pivot point (my choice). Another is ground wires from the lights all the way to the front.

@fbaer4686 5 жыл бұрын

@@dwightstewart7181 Yeah I thought about that. I left a loose loop at the pivot points.

@rjay6535 3 жыл бұрын

When I began running the wires on mine, I immediately noticed the lack of ground wire running to the rear of the trailer. Instead of farting around with grinding paint and trying to make the circuit complete, I just ran a ground wire to the back for the lights. Seemed to be a simpler solution in the long run. As this thing goes down the road and bounces and swings, theres really no way of telling if the circuit remains complete and I'd rather just be sure and run extra wire.

@fbaer4686 3 жыл бұрын

That's a good way to do it. It should work just fine. Only one more wire to bounce around and fail prematurely... Just a thought...

@rjay6535 3 жыл бұрын

@@fbaer4686 actually I even went as far as to solder all the connections as well so hopefully that should last a while

@fbaer4686 3 жыл бұрын

@@rjay6535 Sounds like you got it going on...

@rjay6535 3 жыл бұрын

@@fbaer4686 lol. Well, I guess I just learned a few things from my Dad in his past experiences. Rest his soul. His knowledge and mindset lives on with me.

@robertjones9536 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video you save me so much time

@fbaer4686 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@da324 2 жыл бұрын

Instead of grinding on the trailer which will introduce rust, you can merely tie in two separate ground wires off the pigtail and run both to the back of the trailer to connect the ground to the lights. This method eliminates grounding to the trailer altogether as it gets the grounding directly from the towing vehicle.

@SouthernOregonReps 7 жыл бұрын

My lights work ( power to all lights) But my right rear brake does not come on. It will signal.... but wont turn on for braking. any ideas?

@fbaer4686 7 жыл бұрын

Did you figure it out?

@SouthernOregonReps 7 жыл бұрын

The Baer Brothers No I haven't touched it since, any ideas?

@fbaer4686 7 жыл бұрын

You should have a brown and a Green wire going to the brake and signal lights. Are they both hot with the blinker on and someone on the brake? They make a cheap ($3) tester at Harbor Freight. It plugs into the car end of the connector and tells you that you have a good signal on all circuits. I would check that first. If all your signals are good, trace the green wire down and make sure you have a signal all the way back to the light. Again, double check all of your grounds. You can check ground resistance with a good digital volt ohm meter.

@davidyeager3700 6 жыл бұрын

Green wire is your turn blinker and brown wire is your tail light

@fbaer4686 5 жыл бұрын

David Yeager Did you get it?

@MrAndre7000 2 жыл бұрын

You should listen to anyone who has poop and cigarette butts in most of the film

@Justin-vj2rk 7 жыл бұрын

You are my hero! Thank you!

@fbaer4686 7 жыл бұрын

Justin Campo Your welcome.

@nboldrini 6 жыл бұрын

I couldn't stop clearing my throat while watching your video. Next time cough real hard before you start filming. Lol

@fbaer4686 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry, that's the way my voice sounds. Lol

@marcushampton2104 4 жыл бұрын

My tail lights have a white wire coming out. Where does that go? I screwed ground screws and attached them to the frame back there but that didn’t work. I attached them to the bolt on the light but that didn’t work. I even tried jumping them to the ground wire at the front of the trailer but that didn’t work.

@fbaer4686 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have a red, black and white wire on your tail lights?

@aoertel 7 жыл бұрын

You probably should have kicked the dog poop out of the way before you filmed

@stevesworldisnumber1 5 жыл бұрын

I don't understand what you mean by grounding source. I connected with Electrical tape all wires, Brown to brown on every point. On the back lights there is three wires a white wire with a round connector, a brown wire and a yellow or green wire, depending on which side it is. I spliced into the brown wires on each side for the side lights and connected all brown wires on each side. Always using electrical tape. I didn't use the wire nuts as they have never worked for me. I've done electrical work for years and wire nuts are a waste of time. I use electrical tape only after carefully twisting the wires together. I have spent many days assembling this trailer, and finally got it done as far as the frame. My next door neighbor, a Navy electrical man, told me the right way to wire this and it still doesn't work. Only the drivers side running light will light up. The instructions make no sense to me at all. I put this trailer together almost all by looking at the pictures. I feel like taking the trailer down to the harbor freight store and parking right in front of their door and demanding that they fix it! No other trailer store in town will touch this because I didn't buy their expensive trailers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve Nelson nevetsnoslen1@gmail.com

@stevesworldisnumber1 5 жыл бұрын

Thank You So Much!!! It's Working! I watched your nice video and saw the areas that you ground off the paint, and I also looked for the small hole in the tongue to attach the white wire to. There was no hole and so I drilled a hole in the tongue frame and screwed in a screw with the wire and a couple of washers. As I ground off paint and reattached each connection, the lights came on. I knew my wire connections were good so it had to be that paint. I know they mean well and don't want the trailers to rust, so that's probably why they gob a tone of paint on there. This kind of thing should be included in these crappy plans. Plus stickers or stamps in the metal to denote each part. I could have saved a lot of time if there was some sort of stickers on the parts. I haven't yet figured out where the carriage bolts go. There are 4 of them. I suspect that they are for the top corners so that wood will lay down flatter on the frame. I'll check that before I mount the wood sections. But Thanks Again for your help!!! And get some of my FREE eBooks by Steve Nelson at: Smashwords DOT com

@fbaer4686 5 жыл бұрын

Steve, did you get this taken care of? I don''t check this site that often. Let me know. I'll check back a little later.

@stevesworldisnumber1 5 жыл бұрын

I got it done by going around at various points where the wires connected with the frame, and sanding off small patches of paint. I learned this from your video here when you said that HF was using the frame as the ground. So sanding off small patches of paint where the wires connected with the frame really did the trick! I don't intend for this trailer to be left out in the rain and so some small sanded spots here and there are no problem. If a person was going to be leaving the trailer out in the weather, then re-coating sanded areas with some sort of clear coating after connecting the wires to the frame, would be advisable. Since I completed my trailer and put on the floor and removable sides, its been in constant use and I haven't had the opportunity to actually fold it up. I did a test folding before installing the flooring and it folded well then. It looks and works great with my all solid white painted walls, (for later advertising areas), and people are always asking me; "Is that a Harbor Freight folding trailer?" I proudly say yes and I built it myself. I take an element of pride in doing and building things myself. Other examples of recent projects are a new chicken house, designed and built by me, and a Kentucky Long Rifle Flintlock that I built from a kit from Traditions. Thanks for your advise on my trailer friends, Steve Nelson *Also see my FREE eBooks at: Smashwords DOT com

@fbaer4686 5 жыл бұрын

@@stevesworldisnumber1 I'm glad everything worked out for you. Sorry, I have not checked my email very regular lately. I'm trying to get better at checking it. Thanks for your patience. By the way. To anyone who might be a browser of parts and pieces, that was not dog feces. It was rotten pomegranates that had fallen off the tree. lest I lay down and get a shoe caught up in dog sh*t as one patron would perceive. Thanks for being so observant.

@Speigs21 2 жыл бұрын

@@stevesworldisnumber1 did you figure out what the carriage bolts go to. I did and can help you out if you didn’t.