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Old May 23, 2004 | 08:03 PM
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HELP!! My truck no longer has tailights. I had a squirrel got on my spare tire and chew my harness all to he . Can I get a new piece that goes from the main harness to the tailights. Please help if you can. babbott
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Old May 23, 2004 | 08:13 PM
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I am not sure of the year of your truck, but you can get the replacement distribution harness from Dodge for lots of bucks, or simply rewire your old one. Peel back the wrapping and you will find it fully color coded, all the way from the terminals to the tailight fixtures. Just stick with the OEM color codes and take your time and use solder and shrink wrap tube to seal off the new connections for the replacement wire.

Another option is a visit to a pull-a-part type junkyard. A new (used) harness will run you all of maybe ten dollars from one of those.
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Old May 23, 2004 | 10:21 PM
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I second the junk yard I went to a junk yard when I needed the wiring harness for my 95 to change it from a flatbed back to pickup bed just took the whole harness far enough up 1500, 2500 are the same I had longbox ex cab and I took off long bed reg cab 1500 3500 might be a little different as they have lights on the tailgate and rear fender flares. good luck think they maybe charged me $30 for wiring harness and bunch of other little parts
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Old May 29, 2004 | 01:05 PM
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Thanks for your help I got it fixed. I am now trapping all the squirrels I can find.
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Old May 29, 2004 | 04:13 PM
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At work, we had a woodchuck chew though a wiring harness of a brand new truck. The harness had to be an inch and a half thick and somewhere from 50-75 wires. What a treat to rewire! It also chewed through a stainless steel ground strap that was an inch wide braided wire!
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Old May 29, 2004 | 08:51 PM
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those dang squirrels they don't even taste that great reminds me of a tree climbing rat
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