http://amceaglesden.com/guide/index.php?title=3_Light_Trailer_Wiring_(30_series_Eagles)&feed=atom&action=history3 Light Trailer Wiring (30 series Eagles) - Revision history2024-03-29T04:59:24ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.24.0http://amceaglesden.com/guide/index.php?title=3_Light_Trailer_Wiring_(30_series_Eagles)&diff=4344&oldid=prevIowaEagle at 20:47, 29 July 20072007-07-29T20:47:59Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>From AMC Eagle Nest member Jim<br />
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This is pretty self-evident when pointed out. I wish someone had pointed it out to me in 1980.<br />
You may have noticed that our Eagles have a three-light system on each side in the back, as do many if not all foreign cars and some American cars.<br />
This means you have a brake light, tail light, and a separate turn signal light.<br />
In the two light system found on ordinary cars, the brake light blinks for a turn signal.<br />
If you buy a generic Wallyworld trailer light kit it will be for the two- light system, with no provision for turn signals when used on our three-light system.<br />
My kit did have a helpful suggestion - buy converter #5410.<br />
The Rambler mentality kicked in.<br />
The kit had a pair of amber, lighted side marker lights.<br />
I mounted them in back next to the red brake lights.<br />
I located the wires to the turn signals and connected them to the amber lights. I now have 6 rather than 4 wires to the trailer. I do need to find better connectors for plugging and unplugging the wires. I also color coded them so I had left to left and not vice-versa.<br />
I like the fact that I have amber turn signals on the trailer to match the Eagle.<br />
As we have mentioned often, the most common problem with trailer lights is faulty ground. The lights ground by the mounting bolts so they need to mount to clean bare metal.<br />
The light kit has a wire to be connected directly to the trailer. I have run a ground wire from a mounting bolt on each light to the same bolt as the ground wire in the kit.<br />
A number of years ago I pulled a Hobie Cat thousands of miles in the South and all along the Gulf coast, with a 78 Toyota Celica Liftback and an old one-ton Chevy van sort of converted to a home made camper.<br />
I learned a lot about trailer lights.<br />
However, I never had trailer turn signals with the Toyota.</div>IowaEagle