Troubleshooting 7-Way Connector Not Working on a 2000 Chevy Silverado 1500  

Under the hood of your 2001 Chevy Silverado, remove the cover on the power distribution box. If standing in front of the truck facing the motor, the brake controller fuse will be that last large one in the back left corner, see picture. But the…

The four wires in the bigger wire bundle on your 2000 Chevy Silverado are run as follows to the 4 inch Pigtail Wiring Harness for Pollak Replacement 7-Pole RV Socket, part #PK11998: Yellow is for the left turn and brake lights Dark Green is for right…

This is not an uncommon situation for your generation of Chevy Silverado. If you remove the cover on the power distribution box, look for a row of larger fuses on the left side of the box (if facing the motor from the front of the truck). If there is…

When you test the 4-Way on the Curt T-Connector Wiring Harness, part #56016, at the rear of your vehicle, it should show now power on all 3 pins with the lights off. If you have the vehicle head lights on, you should have around 12 volts at the brown…

The harness you need is the part #3025-S. You will wire the harness by color to your controller and then will plug the brown connector into the junction box under the dash of your truck. I attached a help article on installing controllers in your…

I think you are going in the right direction. I would definitely replace the 14 gauge wire going to the trailer brake magnets with 10 gauge wire or larger. Usually larger than 10 gauge is hard to get into the trailer connector though. I would also…

There are some connections under the hood that will need to be made to complete the installation of the Tekonsha P2 Brake Controller #90885 with Wiring Harness, #3025-P. Once you have plugged in the #3025-P harness into the port to the left of the…

As far as function goes, the two controllers are actually pretty similar. The primary difference between the two is that the P3 uses what I would call a more user friendly display. Instead of an error code like what's displayed on the P2, the P3…

If your Suburban has a round connector to plug in a 7-Way, you could just use #30955, which is a replacement 7 and 4-Way connector. On some models of the 2000 Chevy trucks and SUVs, there may not have been a tow package wiring plug located above the…

The difference between the Class II and Class III hitches has to do with their Gross Trailer Weight (GTW), their Tongue Weight (TW), and their Hitch Receiver Size. Class II trailer hitch receivers have a 1-1/4 inch receiver and can be rated up to…

A 4-Way trailer connector has the basic lighting functions only; running lights, left turn signal and brake lights, right turn signal and brake lights, and ground. A 7-Way has these functions and a 12 volt circuit, a circuit for electric trailer…

In order to determine the torque rating for the lug nuts on your trailer you will need to know check out the chart I attached that shows all of the torque specs for all the trailer lugs available based on stud size, wheel material and wheel size.