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- Y-GuyModeratorLittleBill I hate to say it but I wouldn't hold your breath hoping to find them from Thor or anyone else. In reality very few RV manufacturers actually have them. Winnebago is one of the few out there that have them and post them online. Many don't have them as things change so often and once they are sold they don't care. I really hope I'm wrong, but you may need to look at other options to trace the wiring.
- LittleBillExplorer
Y-Guy wrote:
LittleBill I hate to say it but I wouldn't hold your breath hoping to find them from Thor or anyone else. In reality very few RV manufacturers actually have them. Winnebago is one of the few out there that have them and post them online. Many don't have them as things change so often and once they are sold they don't care. I really hope I'm wrong, but you may need to look at other options to trace the wiring.
I have received one for a slightly different model from them, but yes its limited in what I need.
shocked they don't have some kind of wiring diagram. but what do I know
I have determined it doesn't matter, due to where the wire is, I will have to tear half the side off. Not going to happen. going to have to rewire and bypass all of it. - Y-GuyModeratorI hear ya LittleBill, I wanted diagrams for my previous Raptor Toy Hauler, called, emailed, got my dealer involved and was finally told they don't have wiring or plumbing diagrams. :(
Can you route under the RV? After poking around ours I figure I could run wiring if I needed, but it's a dirty job. - KrustyNomad IIWhat type of issue are you having? Some marker lamps are operational while others are not?
- LittleBillExplorerthe front over head clearance lights on the cabover shorted out. the previous owner had an issue where they lost the ground, and tied into a reading light inside the rv, coming home last week, I lost all the running lights, including the dash.
after ripping half the dash out, and determining it was a fuse issue, replaced the fuse, but bypassed the switch. this time the fuse didn't pop, but the wire in the wall that the guy used to bypass the ground issue caught on fire.
It was very close to me loosing it, If i hadn't been wearing a headlamp and looked back inside the rv, I would have never initially seen the smoke.
got it out in time but it was close.
long story short, I cut out his wiring, and did a bypass at the fixture itself, and its still shorting out, so apparently the hot side is also bad., so I am drilling straight through from the outside, and making a new harness to run along the inside.
it sucks, but the RV is old, anything else will require weeks of work.
I think the rv is trying to tell me something, last week one of the battery's almost went into thermal runaway before I caught that issue. Always something. - KrustyNomad IIWow, hope you have a good fire extinguisher handy. Possibly you could remove all the related light fixtures and inspect to see if the insulation on one of the wires might be wearing through on a sharp piece of aluminum siding or something?
- LittleBillExplorer
Krusty wrote:
Wow, hope you have a good fire extinguisher handy. Possibly you could remove all the related light fixtures and inspect to see if the insulation on one of the wires might be wearing through on a sharp piece of aluminum siding or something?
I did, they did not design them at all to be serviced. the hole is less then 1 inch, and the connections are soldered to the wire which has 0 slack, its actually taught tight.
I will do so much damage trying to work it from the outside, that its just easier to drill straight into the cab, and make a new harness.
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