I'm installing a electric brake kit for a trailor on a 2006 dakota. I need some info on which wire would be the non powered stop lamp wire on the brake switch mounted at the brake pedal. The brake kit is a Hayes Energizer 3. The red stoplight wire of the kit must connect to this non powered stop lamp wire at the switch or to the trailor tow wiring harness. Any info would help a slightly confused fellow.
340duster
06-26-2007, 09:55 AM
Its the White wire with a blue stripe that you need to tap into.
otis4411
06-26-2007, 10:21 PM
Yea thanks. We went to the Dodge dealer Monday and they gave us some wiring diagrahms but they had never installed one on a dakota so they didn't offer much input. It wasn't my truck but I was asked to help, soooo. I took a volt meter and found that the end wire beside the white&blue striped wire was hot, and when the brake was applied the white and blue striped wire came hot. The other 4 wires never had current but I'm guessing the switch simply closed a connection on those wires that ohming would have confirmed. Anyway I came back to post that in fact it was the white wire with blue stripe.
340duster
06-27-2007, 07:46 AM
Yea thanks. We went to the Dodge dealer Monday and they gave us some wiring diagrahms but they had never installed one on a dakota so they didn't offer much input. It wasn't my truck but I was asked to help, soooo. I took a volt meter and found that the end wire beside the white&blue striped wire was hot, and when the brake was applied the white and blue striped wire came hot. The other 4 wires never had current but I'm guessing the switch simply closed a connection on those wires that ohming would have confirmed. Anyway I came back to post that in fact it was the white wire with blue stripe.
Yeah, the other wires are most likely to shut off cruise control or to control anything else that needs input from the brake pedal.
I found mind using a test light, took me about 10 minutes when I installed my brake controller.
aw738
08-03-2007, 11:45 AM
Your truck should be have a recepticle under the dash on the left side of the steering column to plug an adapter into. No splicing into the wiring should be nessesary. All you have to do is wire the adapter to the brake controller and the rest is plug and play.
This is the adapter.
Turbot_bird
08-15-2007, 01:13 AM
where can yo get the adapter?
aw738
08-15-2007, 04:43 AM
auto parts store or you local dodge dealer
340duster
08-15-2007, 09:34 AM
Your truck should be have a recepticle under the dash on the left side of the steering column to plug an adapter into. No splicing into the wiring should be nessesary. All you have to do is wire the adapter to the brake controller and the rest is plug and play.
This is the adapter.
I didn't see it under mine. I believe that only comes on trucks with the factory tow package, since they don't wire the trucks for a trailer unless you have the tow package. Mine did not have the package, so the only electric brake wire in my truck was the one that came with the factory kit that I installed, and it didn't have the plug.
