ARE truck cap wiring

[62Blazer]

Anybody have the wiring schematic or instructions for an ARE truck cap with both the brake light and interior lights? Bought a used cap and want to wire it up this weekend. There are 4 wires coming out of the cap so presuming one is for the brake signal, one power for the interior lights, and a ground for each. It would just be easier is I could find a schematic of which wire was which so I don't have to trace them all down!

 

[McBroom]

Have you looked at the mfgr website?

Blue Mule

 

[crash68]

It's possible that two of the wires go-to the left and right turn/brake lights. The third brake light won't light up unless both are energized. My Leer top has that, both wires are ran to the third brake light that the Ram trucks have. That wire on my truck is a Wht/Purp wire near the spare tire.

 

[Str13alex]

http://rain.fuse12.klictravel.nl/are-truck-cap-wiring-diagram.html

Check this one. Might be helpful.

 

[62Blazer]

Check all over the ARE website and couldn't find anything. Their installation and removal instructions is literally one page and all it states is "plug or unplug the connector between the truck and cap".

Dodge has the single wire in the loom under the rear of the truck you can connect to for the brake light.

Called the local ARE cap dealer and after 30 minutes kinda' gave up and didn't have time to sit on the phone any more.

Oh well, guess I'll just do it the old fashioned way and ohm out the wires and see what goes where......probably take longer to do that than hook up the wires...

 

[62Blazer]

Was able to figure it out pretty easily after tracing a few wires and looking at the colors. One power and ground for the brake light and one power and ground for the interior lights. Found the wire taped to the passenger side harness to use to get the brake light signal and tapped into it. For the interior lights I looked at a few options but wound up just running a wire all the way up to the battery with an inline fuse. There is a single LED for the whole cab by the back window, and then on mine it has flip up side windows with contractor boxes inside and an LED strip light. The struts have switched in them that will only turn the lights on when they are open. This lets me run constant power without worrying about leaving the lights on accidentally. Used a common ground for both (Y'd the two together) which was just a ring terminal connected to one of the smaller bolts on the bottom side of the rig.