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If you are throwing around the idea of installing a brake controller or needed one yesterday this video will show you step by step what is required. Many trucks come with a factory provided brake control wiring harness which is usually tucked into the glove compartment. On this video we will demonstrate how to install the Tekonsha Prodigy brake controller using this OEM harness. Since this truck has the tow package the only hardwiring required is between the factory harness and the controller. If you want to eliminite all hardwiring and make installation even faster you can opt to purchase the Tekonsha custom wiring harness if one is available for your vehicle.
We are going to use the actual factory tow package, here is the plug that goes with the tow package. There is an adapter that goes straight from the brake controller to the tow package, in case you do have this part and want to use it we will show you how. To begin, there is one major difference here, on the brake controller if you look at the wire harness that comes with it, there are four wires for it. On the factory tow package there are five wires. The difference is this one wire which is the illumination feed. No one has told me the reason for its existence, so we will ignore it since all the functions we need are with the remaining four wires. So when you have this harness, and this applies to a lot of pickup trucks with the factory harness, with the illumination feed just fold it back and forget about it.
We will make our connections, it is pretty simple since the instructions will tell what goes to what and what color is used for function on the brake controller. For example blue is going to be for the brake lead that goes out back and on the factory harness it will tell you what one does what. It is labeled here to trailer electric brakes. We will follow that all the way to the wires. We will start with the blue, and you can connect them with quick connects or crimp connections like we are doing here which makes for a sleeker install. Now we will do our black wire which goes to our twelve volt power supply. Labeled on the factory harness is wire feed from battery, so we will hook up this red to that black. Next we will do our red wire here on our brake controller, which goes to our stop light feed so look for that on the factory harness which is the green wire. Lastly is our white wire on our brake controller which the ground wire. The white wire on the factory harness is labeled ground as well so we will connect those together. Now we will tape up our connections, make it look nice and we will install it on our truck. We are going to mount our brake controller which is traditionally mounted to the dash here which is kind of at a steep angle. However, there is a nice piece of metal here for a computer port which we will put it right next to that and we will have just enough room to install and enough steel for this screw here and we will put one in the middle on this side. We should be pretty well set. Now we will clamp it into place and mark out our holes. Next we will use a couple of self tapping screws and go right through that.
Next we are going to plug our wiring into our port which is hidden behind the computer port here. It is above and pointing out that way, basically it is above this bracket right here. So we will go ahead and plug this in. Now we will plug it into the brake controller and install the screws that hold it in place. The next step is to take care of this excess wiring here, we will bundle it up and zip tie to somewhere safe underneath the dash. One note is that we left that illumination feed wire open in case a customer wants or needs to use it for anything else. Aside from testing the brake controller, our install is complete. That covers our install of part number 90185, the prodigy brake controller on our 2004 Ford F150..
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