2000 Lade has a hitch, but no connector for the trailer light harness....doesn't make much sense to me but whatever. I now know it has never towed, and that the harness is still tye rapped up with no connector. I bought the round connector to put on, but i can't find a good spot to mount the stupid thing. I may resort to just wiring up the four pack since that is all i need anyways with my current trailers. I was just going to put the round one on since that will cover everything. Anyone put the round one on and found a good spot. Looks like the bumper cover would need to be cut or something?


FF

I have the round type plug in you see on newer rides on my 99 and the shop that installed it bolted it on the trailer hitch with a cheesey little bracket that bottoms out on stuff when in deep sand or marsh or just whenever I feel like jumping a curb or two.

The wires get stripped and start to hang down.

That setup looks like crap to me on my own ride so I would suggest you get a professional to adapt the round plug into your 2000.

That or just use the four prong deal... all you have to do is disconnect the bracket up under the rear driver side toward the middle up in your bumper then plug the harness in line and run it out to your trailer. It still looks a little cheesey but get some ties that match your paint and you should be able to get it layed out ok.

You can always take it back out of the sequence when you are not towing.

The other hookup will be more premanent.

I took my rear bumper cover off to see where i could mount the bracket for the 7 pin plug. There is really no good spot due to the fact that the plug is long, and the harness out the back would have alot of rubbing tension on the actual hitch. I ended up bending the bracket semi flat and it actually has a radius to it, and will work out well mounting to the front of the hitch. Not underneath like you mentioned, becuase i contiplated mounting it that way, but you would lose clearance like you said. Mounting the bracket on the front with the plug top resting under the hitch actually makes the bottom of the plug at the same height as flush with the bottom of the spare tire. So that's what i'm going to go with. Should look ok as well.


FF

I wish the dude that installed mine would have tried a little harder... sounds like you made an easy adjustment that made a lot of practical sense.

it's not perfect, but i know exactly where yours is and how that could cause some trouble.

Draw-Tite makes mounting brackets that clamp to your hitch using a hose clamp. http://www.etrailer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=E&Category_Code=E When I wired my '00, the brackets weren't available, so I fabricated one and clamped it to the hitch with a long hose clamp. To wire for trailer brakes, you have to trace the wires up under the master cylinder and make the front connections for the brake controller and the main power lead. I have no idea why they didn't wire it at the assembly plant and supply a pig-tail connector. The worst part was getting the wires into the passenger compartment and splicing into the brake light switch wire. I used a hand held controller so that I can disconnnect the activator when I'm not towing. That way the controller isn't visable in under the dash. If I had it to do over I think I would have a trailer shop wire it, but I would make sure they had worked on a '99/'00 before.

Thanks for the explanation... I opted not to hardwire the trailer brakes due to the cost and pain in the arse. I don't tow enough to justify the expense.

My 99 has the heavy duty harness and the 4 wire harness from the factory. I would think 2000 would be the same. Check your manual thats how I discovered mine. Only disadvantage is there is no controller so all the brakes would activate at the same time.