My First Tracker! (My 7th tracKick)

I found a Tracker sitting in a field. 

It looked lonely and forgotten, so I loaded it up on the trailer and drug it home.

I hit it with a pressure washer just before dark... I'll have more pictures and maybe even a plan for it tomorrow.

TracKick Trailer Connector

Very few TracKick owners know there is a plug provided to wire in trailer wiring.  Almost every one I have seen, with a trailer hitch, had "scotch lock" wire taps at the tail lights.

While scotch locks "work" the allow corrosion to start in the wires making all the lights on the rear unreliable.

So much better to just plug in a plug.


This plug is labeled "C402" in Tracker manuals. I haven't figured out what Suzuki calls in (L17 or L19... maybe.)

The plug can be accessed by removing the driver's side tail light and following the harness forward about a foot.  You'll find a plug taped to the harness.

This picture is taken from inside the car, with the side panel removed.  Looking into the cavity normally accessed from the tail light.  You can see the blue plug and the remnants of the tape that held it to the harness.  

 I pulled the harness into the interior of the car for the pictures.

 6 pin connector
 4 green wires, one black and one red/yellow

1 - Green/Red (G/R) is the LH turn signal
2 - Green/Yellow (G/Y) is the RH turn signal
3 - Green is 12v power from the 15amp Stop/Horn fuse 

6 - Green/White (G/W) is the brake light.
5 - Red/Yellow (R/W) is the marker/clearance lights
4 - Black (B) is ground.

To use this with the common (US) flat four trailer connector you need a combiner.  It will take the separate turn signal and brake lights and combine them into a pair of combined tail light.  Now days they make combiners with the proper plug already installed.

If you can not find one, or you already have a combiner you want to reuse and need a plug I have found one that works.

  
It is in the door lock circuit and you might already have a spare plug to use.  If your car came with a Suzuki security system.  (Normally non-op by now.)  It can be found under the dash, behind the glove box.  If you look close, I have an arrow pointing at a security system plug on my 1994 JLX.  Even if you do not have power door locks there might be an unused security plug hanging under the dash... were the dealer "install tech" left it.  I have also got the plug from the car harness in junkyards.

TracKick Pin Type Fasteners

Earlier I tried to explain how the pin type fasteners worked with words.  I am not sure my 1000 words actually did the job so here are a few pictures.

This is what you normally see.

To remove you press the pin in just a little.  If you push too hard the inner pin will fly out the back requiring you to find the pin and reassemble. 

After pressing the center pin the whole thing can be withdrawn from the hole.

This is what it looks like when removed.  (Removal position)

To re-use, reset the pin to the "install position."

 When installed and the center pin pushed flush, the fingers are forced out, expanding and locking the pin in place.

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Another variation of these pins are a square ones used for the rocker panels.

The rocker pins do blend in... there isn't a center pin to push in.

 Looking at the back side, you can see the center pin and the fingers.  Press the center pin in and.....

The head should pop out.  you can then remove the whole pin.

Under the rocker panel plastic coverings is the rest of the fastening hardware.  Lots of places for dirt, water, mud and other "stuff" to collect and cause rust.  Glad this rig spent most of the time in the non-rust belt western US.