Five connector flat plug

[Rich Stern]

I've got to tow a trailer with a five connector flat wiring plug (fifth wire is the reverse/brake solenoid lockout). My Ford has a four pin flat connector.



Will the five connector flat plug go into my four pin receiver, and leave the fifth position available for me to run a lead to the break lights? Or do I need some type of adapter harness?

 

[Jim B]

Rich,

The connector will plug right into the 4 pin harness and the lights and signals will work fine. The only thing is you wont be able to back up without either, runing a lead to the reverse lights for the 5th pin or on some trailers theres a manual lockout that you can use when the time comes to back up. If the trailer has a manual reverse lockout you should be fine, just remember to engage it before you try to backup.

 

[Herndonpro]

There is an adapter you can buy if you want the seloniod to work properly.



HP

 

[Rich Stern]

Thanks, gents.

 

[Jim B]

An adapter will only work if he has the round 6 or 7 pin deal on the truck end. Something that looks like this..

They make all kinds of 5 pin adapters for those, i use one all the time.



From what Rich describes he has a 4 flat on the truck that was either spliced in or with one of those t connector deals kinda like this.

There is no adapter i know of that will bring that 4 flat out to a 5 flat with the reverse light wired without either a cuting it off and replacing it with a 5 flat on the truck end and wiring the 5th pin to the reverse lights or getting a 4-7 kit that also requires extra wireing to be done to liven all the other pins and a 7-5 adapter to fit it to the trailer.



With what Rich has on his truck now( from what i can tell) the only thing he can do is use the manual override or rewire. for a one time tow, id say use the override but if its going to be regular towing of this trailer a rewire job is in order for sure.

 

[Mini]

As stated here hook the 5th lead to the REVERSE lights. NOT the brake lights Rich. Easy job for a man as talented as you...lol



Mini

 

[Larry Harp]

I just went through the whole enchilada with the 5 pin flat connector. I had to change my 4 pin that ran the old Tracker to a 5 pin for the new 591. First of all, everyone thinks you don't know what you're talking about when you ask for a 5 pin flat. Even my daughter who works in the service dept of a large RV dealership kept correcting me....she said it was either a 4 pin flat or a 7 pin round. I thought I was going to have to take a picture of it to convince her that I was right. Even the guy at the U-Haul store was clueless....however we kept looking on the pegboard display and found a 5 pin flat wiring harness. He was more surprised than I was. So I got the new harness wired up and all is well....except I can't find a cover for it to keep the dirt and water out of it....any ideas on that?



Harpo

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Yeah, never unhook the boat!!:lol::lol:



TOXIC

 

[Marty Klein]

Wow, TOXIC got that song in one note! :lol::lol::lol:



Baggie and rubber band.

 

[Mini]

Kevin, you are not crazy. I used to do it all the time before I fixed my corroding reverse wire.



Mini