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Old Jun 26, 2021 | 08:15 AM
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I’ve recently installed the opt7 redline triple on my truck. I followed some of the other posts on here to correctly hard wire into my tail lights. Everything is working except for my brake lights. I understand on my light bar that the turn signal and brake light share a wire but it seems as in my tail light they do not so if anyone has a suggestion please help just trying to get this to work correctly. Thanks in advance.
 
Old Jun 26, 2021 | 08:38 AM
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Do you have incandescent or led taillights taillights?
 
Old Jun 26, 2021 | 08:40 AM
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Do you have incandescent or led taillights taillights?
Edit:I don’t think they’re leds. I do believe it is incandescent. After some research
 

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Old Jun 26, 2021 | 09:01 AM
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The only time the bottom row (running, brake) brightens is when I unlock my truck or when I first turn it on.
 
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So here is the taillight wiring diagrams and the connector views for both taillights.
The light bar uses a flat four trailer connector, one is ground, one is running lights, one if left turn/brake, one if right turn/brake.
I would check that you spliced the correct wires to each other along with making sure all the spliced are well done.



 
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Originally Posted by scott.butler4
So here is the taillight wiring diagrams and the connector views for both taillights.
The light bar uses a flat four trailer connector, one is ground, one is running lights, one if left turn/brake, one if right turn/brake.
I would check that you spliced the correct wires to each other along with making sure all the spliced are well done.



so as the pictures show, when I splice into wire #1 for stop/turn (right or left) the blinkers don’t work and when I splice into #3 for turn lamp (right or left) rear then the brake lights don’t work.
 
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Originally Posted by scott.butler4
So here is the taillight wiring diagrams and the connector views for both taillights.
The light bar uses a flat four trailer connector, one is ground, one is running lights, one if left turn/brake, one if right turn/brake.
I would check that you spliced the correct wires to each other along with making sure all the spliced are well done.



If I use wire #1 the brake lights work but not the blinkers. If I use wire #3 the blinkers work but not the tail lights. What’s the solution here?
 
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