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I Need Help With My Tailgate (Lot's of Pic's)
Today I started to take a look at my tailgate, It works but it needs new wiring done because the harness melted. When that happened I dont know but I narrowed the cause down to a single wire for the tailgate light for the the license plate! When I first got the truck we were able to get the tailgate to work by slightly moving the harness but then quickly realized it wouldn't be going back up... after awhile we got lucky and randomly probed the "dash" switch wires with a continuity tester making the tailgate go up I think this is two problems my switch is broken and the tailgate wiring is fried! here are some pictures to give you a better idea
That cut wire was the one that fried and melted the harness together I traced it and it looks to be the license plate courtesy light, If I'm wrong please tell me other wise, Now those two other wires on the same plug go ontop of Tailgate motor so I figure these are the wires that actuate the motor for up and down
This is right before I cut and bypassed all the melted wires, I added the electrical tape there for the time being awhile ago, that whole area is melted and fried the wires are even melted farther back, and those two wire that are tangling out of the tailgate were what I think belong to a light that was removed one is a ground and the other is that wire I cut out that melted the harness pictured in the photo above this one.
I just noticed this, I think this is part of the defroster but that unplugged wire was sitting in there like who ever did it wanted it to connect when obviously that wire dose not belong there, the connector is all bent from being forced to touch that prong
This is some of the melted wires after I cut out that small white wire
So for the two wire that run to the tailgate motor I bypassed the bad wires with new wire
Even after all of this my tailgate wont work, SO Now I believe I should Replace the tailgate dash switch, it's a four wire switch two red one black and uhhh I forgot the fourth wire. What can I use to replace it? well any ol' Four wire window switch wire work?
Also I found this hiding behind the Tailgate assembly unplugged What is this?
Is there any way to jump the wires for down and up as a last resort?
what is this ground for? the purple wire that that is highlighted red
That cut wire was the one that fried and melted the harness together I traced it and it looks to be the license plate courtesy light, If I'm wrong please tell me other wise, Now those two other wires on the same plug go ontop of Tailgate motor so I figure these are the wires that actuate the motor for up and down
This is right before I cut and bypassed all the melted wires, I added the electrical tape there for the time being awhile ago, that whole area is melted and fried the wires are even melted farther back, and those two wire that are tangling out of the tailgate were what I think belong to a light that was removed one is a ground and the other is that wire I cut out that melted the harness pictured in the photo above this one.
I just noticed this, I think this is part of the defroster but that unplugged wire was sitting in there like who ever did it wanted it to connect when obviously that wire dose not belong there, the connector is all bent from being forced to touch that prong
This is some of the melted wires after I cut out that small white wire
So for the two wire that run to the tailgate motor I bypassed the bad wires with new wire
Even after all of this my tailgate wont work, SO Now I believe I should Replace the tailgate dash switch, it's a four wire switch two red one black and uhhh I forgot the fourth wire. What can I use to replace it? well any ol' Four wire window switch wire work?
Also I found this hiding behind the Tailgate assembly unplugged What is this?
Is there any way to jump the wires for down and up as a last resort?
what is this ground for? the purple wire that that is highlighted red
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