how is fishing in buffalo

[copo427ss]

Oops. Stupid auto correct. What I ment was is sturgeon point launchable this weekend. But thanks for the forecast. Looks like it won't be to rough

[glowgetter]

Oops. Stupid auto correct. What I ment was is sturgeon point launchable this weekend. But thanks for the forecast. Looks like it won't be to rough

I was there yesterday fri. and they are still dredging. it looks like they are nearing completion though.

[captainjoe]

Well I ALMOST made it to the water today. I'm getting closer. I was about a mile from the launch at the Small Boat Harbor driving down Ridge Road. I saw a puff of smoke in me rear view mirror, my partner says " I smell Something" I saw the battery light come on to dash. I pulled over and took a look at the plug from the vehicle to the trailer. The wires were melting through the harness under the vehicle. At first i thought the wires contacted the muffler. But after further investigation the wires melted from the fuse box the the trailer plug. Now the directional signals are messed up. Oh Boy! I went to the boat dealer the vehicle dealer, back and forth to get it right and this happens. Anyone have any suggestions on where to get this mess straightened out? After all of this it may have been a loose wire that caused all of this?????

[bailey]

That doesnt sound good joe at all. I would start looking at farthest point wires burned. The fact it burnt all the way to fuse box is confusing. Fuses shoild of popped, my thought is ehat kind of pain +$ to fix wirings of the hummer. Not a good start to the year! !. You hauled the old rig with the hummer right. What difference between old trailer wiring and the new one?

[copo427ss]

Joe, what were your issues before that you had the trailer in the shop for? Burning all the way to the fuse block doesn't make any sense. Like bailey said the fuses should have burned out, long before they melted that far.That's what they're there for. What size fuses were in there? 30s? (green). If you have a separate fuse block for trailer wiring like I have nothing should be over 15amp( blue). Are you running a 4 flat system? Or the 7 pin with trailer brakes? If it is 7 pin and electric brakes I would say that the brake battery is back feeding the system possibly and melted everything. The strange part is you made it Down the road always before it happened. Do you remember if you were on the brakes, lights on, or turn signals when it happened? You could also have a wire chafed through somewhere causing a short to ground. But again that's what fuses are for. The only other thing I can think is you have soooo many lights on your trailer that the wires couldn't handle the load through them and over heated. But you would have to have alot of lights. Ha ha. But anyway, that's all I can think of for the moment. Wait! If you do have electric brakes and the system shorted out, it's all in the same harness on the truck and would have melted all the wires without blowing fuses.

[captainjoe]

I've been hauling a boat from the day that I got the truck. My old boat trailer had surge brakes. This new trailer has surge brakes but it has a solenoid on the trailer so when you back up the brakes don't come on. Initially I found that the wire which would go to the reverse light was never hooked up. I took it to the car dealer to hook it up. Something wasn't correct. The car dealer said that the pigtail that I got from the boat dealer was crossed. I went to the boat dealer and had it checked out. We found that the wrong wires had power going to them. We adjusted the wires to correspond correctly. I tested it last week and it seemed to work properly. Yesterday I went for gas and everything worked. When I was driving to the marina was when I had the meltdown. I found that the red (hot) went from a terminal around the fusebox was never fused. I believe something grounded out. Maybe the plug? The truck frame? Anyways it kept drawing until the insulation melted and the wire broke apart. ??

[fishkiller16]

4 more days and ill be in Port Clinton fishing the western basin Walleyes and drinking some finely aged Capt. Morgan...lol

[copo427ss]

I've been hauling a boat from the day that I got the truck. My old boat trailer had surge brakes. This new trailer has surge brakes but it has a solenoid on the trailer so when you back up the brakes don't come on. Initially I found that the wire which would go to the reverse light was never hooked up. I took it to the car dealer to hook it up. Something wasn't correct. The car dealer said that the pigtail that I got from the boat dealer was crossed. I went to the boat dealer and had it checked out. We found that the wrong wires had power going to them. We adjusted the wires to correspond correctly. I tested it last week and it seemed to work properly. Yesterday I went for gas and everything worked. When I was driving to the marina was when I had the meltdown. I found that the red (hot) went from a terminal around the fusebox was never fused. I believe something grounded out. Maybe the plug? The truck frame? Anyways it kept drawing until the insulation melted and the wire broke apart. ??

. Joe correct. And that wire should have been fused at least with an inline. Where does the red wire go? Your reverse light wire? I believe the reverse wire in the connector should be purple. Red is to supply battery voltage constant and should be fused. Is the entire harness cooked?