88 Lance Truck Camper Wiring To Pick up

[Trapper_Earl]

I purchased used a Lance Truck Camper. If I am correct The wiring plug on the Lance should be a 7 pin/blade proprietary plug. That has been cut off by the previous owner and replaced with a 6 pin round. The six pin round is what is on the Chevy pickup. After blowing a few fuses I tore it all apart and found out just how proprietary Lances plugs are. So at this point I have the running lights, left and right brakes and turns, so here is my question. 1. coming off the chevy are two heavy gauge wires (LOOK 8ga AND 10ga) the 8 being red with a small white and blue stripe (this wire is hot) , and the 10 being blue which I believe to be for the brakes. Now per wiring diagrams this red hot wire should be wired to the 40amp "interior lts" wire which Lance has as a 8 gauge black wire, this wire is also hot. so the question is: Can I wire those two hot wires together 9one being hot from camper battery and the other being hot from the truck battery. I am not into electrical so I aint to smart.

[KD4UPL]

From your description I would say yes; you would connect the hot 12 volt + wire from the truck to the one from the camper. You should also have an equally heavy gauge wire for the negative connection. This is usually white from the truck, hard to say on the camper.
The blue electric brake wire from the truck will not connect to the camper since it doesn't have brakes.

[Lwiddis]

Gee, trapper, post this five more times.