Trailer Wiring Harness Question

[imcivor]

Hi there,
I have an 2003 6L F350. I went out to the Ford Dealer today and bought a wiring harness for the truck. To connect to it, I have my Tekonsha Voyager Electric brake controller (from my old truck). Now here is my issue:

The brake controller has 4 wires from the back.

Black-to battery
Red-To Stoplight
White-To Ground
Blue-To Brake

on the harness from Ford, it is as follows:
Red-"Feed Wire From Battery"
Green-"Stop Lamp"
Blue-"Trailer Electric Brakes"
White-"Ground"
Brown-"Illumination Feed"

Now, for those of you who were not following along, the harness from Ford has an extra brown wire.

Here is how I hooked it up:

Blue to Blue
White to White
Black (from controller) to Red in harness
Red (from controller) to Green in harness

and the little only brown wire standing there by itself.

Did Ford give me the wrong harness??

Ian

[imcivor]

bump,bump,bump

[MrJohnWayne]

no. You do not need the brown wire in the ford harness. Just leave it unhooked and everything will be fine.

[bluestroker]

thats the way I did mine and it works fine

[imcivor]

Thanks for the replies. So, do you suggest just cutting out the brown wire from the harness then? I don't really want to leave the wire just hanging there.

Ian

[bluestroker]

Originally Posted by imcivor

Thanks for the replies. So, do you suggest just cutting out the brown wire from the harness then? I don't really want to leave the wire just hanging there.

Ian

I just took some electrical tape and taped mine up I did not want to juts cut it I don't think I will ever need it but you never know its there for something but thats just my two cents you can cut it out if you want

[2feathers]

You hooked it up right.