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Troubleshooting Trailer Lights & Temporary Repair on the Road

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We Found a REAL Dale Earnhardt Goodwrench Trailer FOR SALE! Can We Get It Home?

What happens here

While driving the trailer home, the trailer lights stop working. The team pulls over to inspect the wiring in the truck's bed. They discover that the trailer plug's wires have completely come apart, likely due to a poor crimping job by a previous owner. With limited tools on hand, a temporary repair is made using a razor blade to strip the wires and gray duct tape to secure them, ensuring the brake lights and turn signals are operational for the evening drive.

Goal: Re-establish functioning trailer lights for safe travel.

Tools and materials

  • Duct Tape — Insulating and securing temporary wire connections
  • Razor Blade Unspecified — Stripping wire insulation
  • Trailer Plug Wires Unspecified — The damaged wiring needing repair

What they say

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oh this one's still got the cotter pin we're good well i guess we're almost loaded up we can pull it out of here and see what this rig looks like as a whole when i got this truck four years ago never did i ever think it would pull a trailer that pulled daler and hart's cars around it's just crazy look at this thing look at it's got pinstriping on it i thought these were scratches on the other side but they were down they're better preserved over here it's like a cool design yeah they're a little low yeah so rubber feels good though they're not dried out i was curious if the brake lights and stuff were working okay left is good right is good oh it looked like only one of the the left side worked yeah this one on the end doesn't work at all first impressions as far as how it pulls that's not very heavy not not like the other gooseneck i'm used to pulling it's pretty pretty good time will tell we'll see there's always that period of nervousness whenever you are going to buy something that's listed on you know marketplace craigslist whatever you put a deposit on it but you gotta drive halfway across the country to get there and you never know if the seller is trustworthy enough to actually take your word for it like i was really concerned somebody was gonna see this thing from the road and go in there and have cash in their pocket and be like hey i'll give you this much for right now and the guy would just be like oh we'll screw this dude that made a deposit here you go but you gotta give me props he didn't do that this is just the coolest thing ever we uh stopped with a giant roll king on the side of i-70 get some duct tape hold this together you know just uh just the essentials oh logan's culture gonna leave me here i'm coming all right well here's your parking lot fix because we care yes we care and we don't want this to get snagged on something and fly away so i don't want to use very much because it's going to be hard to get it off good enough that'll do the job good as new this thing's really going to brighten up with a good pressure washing look how much just stuff is stuck to it now you can see better in the sun when we get to clean this thing it's really gonna come alive i'm excited to take a pressure washer to the inside yeah it's bad don't open it i'm just looking at a little bit closer now that we got some good light on it you can see chattanooga yellow in there this is there from the original construction they just took this with a band saw in his…

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