What if it Snows?

Here’s a good one from our crack team of parts changers.

Sometime over the course of yesterday I lost the brake lights on the trailer. I wrote it up when I parked, and much to nobody’s surprise it never got fixed last night.

This morning after hooking up I park by the shop and yell “Houston we have a problem”. One mechanic comes out, checks the fuses under the hood, and replaces a blown 30 amp which remedies the situation for all of 5 seconds. After popping in another fuse he unplugged the light cord and stuck a tester in it. Well, now we know the brake light circuit is at least good back that far.

Now the tire and lube guy comes out to help. He lowered the liftgate, pulled some spaghetti out from above it, and spotted some bare copper on one of the wires.

Well, the first guy is still poking around in the fuse box under the hood, and now the tire guy pops open the one under the dash.

“Oh boy....” I said to myself as I lit a smoke.

After 15-20 minutes of watching this, the first guy scratches his head in bafflement and told me I might have to take another truck, because apparently there’s no electric going to the trailer brake light circuit terminal.

“Wait a minute. How about if the brake pedal is pushed?” I asked. “Would there be power there then?”

You could almost see the light bulbs appear over both their heads. Tire guy went to the back of the trailer, taped the bare wire he found, and I was gone almost an hour later than the time that stupidity should’ve took.

 

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