A little wiring help please! Triton Lite 2-place

[corpeleven]

Working on my two place Triton Lite tonight to get the lights working.

Got all lights working and functioning correctly except for the right rear side marker light.

Pulled the light out of the grommet to take a look. 2 wires plug into it, brown (hot) and white (ground). After I unplugged the light it's self from the two wires, the ends of the wires touched.

Now NONE of my trailer lights work at all, and to top it off, my left taillight on my truck does not work (running lamp only). When I put on the brake, it's fine, and hazards, fine. Left rear blinker, fine. It's only the constant running function that doesn't work.

I checked all my fuses in the truck and found none blown. I'm at a loss here, can anyone offer some suggestions? I'm about to lose my mind!

 

[777]

What kind of P-up?

 

[corpeleven]

2002 s-10

Update: Brake and turn signals work on truck and trailer.

Drivers side tail light out on truck, all side marker lights and tail lights out on trailer.

I tested for voltage on 4 pin connector coming out of truck, and I have power for left turn, right turn, and brakes. No power for tail lights. So it has to be a fuse, but I checked again and can't find a fuse that's blown???

What fuse controls the tail lights on this truck? Anybody know?

 

[94fordguy]

I could be way off base here, but is it possible there could be a relay for the trailer lights in addition to or in place of a fuse? The reason I ask is because when I added back up lights to my trailer, that required me to add a relay into the correct position in the panel under the hood.....

Can't say that I've ever had your specific problem, but thought I would throw the idea out there...

As for the bum tail light on the truck... my first guess would be a bad bulb since everything else on the truck appears to be fine.

 

[corpeleven]

Checked the taillight bulb on my truck, it's fine. Replaced it for the hell of it. No change. Still doesn't work.

 

[Olie3170]

Did you look in your owners manual to see if you have separate fuses for the trailer like alot of trucks do? Sometimes there are a couple different fuse blocks that contain different fuses for the trailer. That is the most common problem I've seen with trailer lights.

You may not be properly grounding your running lights.

You probably don't make it up here much, but if you are in the neighborhood and your still having problems you could bring it in here and I'd help you with it.

 

[w8tn4u]

2002 s10 has separate fuses for the left and right rear running light. Fuse block is under hood 10 amp. I would have to guess that when they wired your truck they spliced into the left rear running light wire. When you shorted the trailer wire it blew the fuse.