1971/72 Terry Travel Trailer 24ft

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Fleetwood acquired Terry Coach Industries in 1964.....last year of production was 2009.
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Good luck and post back with problems......some folks maybe able to help.

What I didn't realize whe I started with a similar situation was that the skin of the trailer is actually the ground wire in many cases. What you should do is take off the reflector of each light and connect to your truck to the frame of each light in turn, and use that as your ground for checking. Then see if either filament works when you try running lights and brake lights. It's actually prety simple and you can get easy help if you pm me back.

Find someone to help you rewire the trailer. There is no way you're going to get specific instructions for your Terry wiring problems and make it understandable to a novice. This is a hands-on job.

There is no manual or schematic diagram for any of these vintage tow-behinds for the exterior lamps. Since it usually involves only five or six wires and those are usually coded to a standard, it's not necessary to have a manual.

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BTW, congrats on your Terry and welcome to the forum.

E trailer has all kinds of goodies to help you with all you trailer light needs.

Trailer manuals typically are real generic and tend to not offer any usable info.

For your vintage I would be doubtful that you are going to find New Old Stock of the manual and even used copies are going to be as scarce as hens teeth.

Your brake/turn/running lights are actually rather simple.

The Brake/Turn shares one wire the running lights is one wire and each fixture will have a ground wire going to the frame.

Some trailers have a small fuse box up near the tongue of the trailer which will have fuses for these functions.

I would suggest removing the lens on the offending tail light and remove the bulb and clean the socket. Bulb sockets often corrode and corrosion will prevent the bulb from lighting.

Check the connector on the cable going from the trailer to your vehicle for badly corroded connections. These connectors often get badly corroded and sometimes the blades will have corroded so bad it is gone.

Additionally you need to check to see if the connector is wired correctly. Over the years there has been several different ways the wires have been connected and some folks have even wired the connectors any way they felt like it..

Do a search for 7 pin RV/trailer wiring diagram.

Check the wires going into the fixture, make sure the wires have not corroded.

If none of that works then you can try temporarily running some wires from the tongue junction box to the offending light and see if the lights work. Try a temporary ground wire from the fixture to the frame also..

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