Tire Blowout and Battery Cable
Page 1 of 1 • Share •
Tire Blowout and Battery Cable
Coming home form a trip to California with our 31QBH, had a blowout on the curb side rear tire. It took out some wiring and damaged the wheel skirt. I spliced the wires back together underneath and everything seemed to be working, but now I am not getting any juice from the battery. Everything works on shore power, but nothing on 12V. The hydraulic pump will not run from the slideout or landing gear switches, but will run if I use the switch mounted on the pump itself. The battery cables run under the trailer right where the tire took out the smaller wires, but there is no noticeable damage to the battery cables, other than the red cable seems to have more cable hanging under the trailer than the white. I am guessing it got pulled out of something but not sure how it is routed to the converter once it goes up through the floor. Any suggestions on what the problem could be or how to trace the cable inside to the converter?
Thanks!
Thanks!

Rick A- New member

- Number of posts: 15
Registration date: 2008-04-18
Location: North Richland Hills, TX
Re: Tire Blowout and Battery Cable
Hi Rick,
Any chance that you may have simply blown a breaker? when the damage to the wireing occured it may have shorted out some of the wiring...after you repaired it you would still need to reset the manual breakers...
Help me out here brothers and sister but isn't there several of those small cube breakers located up near the pump in the front compartment?
Keep in mind,if your rig does have those manual reset breakers those are separate from the breakers inside of the converter...
Also the fact that you have wiring hanging is somewhat of a red flag, you may have actually broken the wire or pulled it out of a butt connector if any were used...you would like to think that there would be no splices within that run of wire. but If FR is short by three feet of wire on a rig I seriously doubt that they would pull all the wire junk it and start with a new roll...
Take a look for those little breakers in the front compartment and check those first...
Any chance that you may have simply blown a breaker? when the damage to the wireing occured it may have shorted out some of the wiring...after you repaired it you would still need to reset the manual breakers...
Help me out here brothers and sister but isn't there several of those small cube breakers located up near the pump in the front compartment?
Keep in mind,if your rig does have those manual reset breakers those are separate from the breakers inside of the converter...
Also the fact that you have wiring hanging is somewhat of a red flag, you may have actually broken the wire or pulled it out of a butt connector if any were used...you would like to think that there would be no splices within that run of wire. but If FR is short by three feet of wire on a rig I seriously doubt that they would pull all the wire junk it and start with a new roll...
Take a look for those little breakers in the front compartment and check those first...

THEHIWAYMAN (aka Tim)- Member

- Number of posts: 144
Registration date: 2011-08-08
Location: Lebanon Maine
Re: Tire Blowout and Battery Cable
Turns out it was the that breaker by the battery. I did not know it was even there. Reset it and everything is now fine.

Rick A- New member

- Number of posts: 15
Registration date: 2008-04-18
Location: North Richland Hills, TX
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum