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Background:
I finally did it:
1. Ordered the obsolete connectors from Eastern Beaver in Japan.
2. Built a quick-add/quick-remove harness.
It consists of 6" 'extenders" for the taillight harnesse, with the required "converter" ($15 at U-Haul or elsewhere) to THOSE wires, not to the actual Festiva wiring.
The whole enchilada rolls up into a Ziplock bag for use on any Festy anywhere. I’m taking it in my flight bag soon to my East Coast Festy -- with the actual hitch in a small crate as checked baggage -- to haul a rented U-Haul 4x8 trailer 400 miles.
I can now set any Festiva up for towing in 6 minutes:
1. Five minutes to bolt on the hitch.
2. One minute to add the wiring.
and undo it all even faster.
As mentioned in the above thread, I plan to be driving Festies for a good many more years. Since nothing rusts here in the West, and I don't take my East Coast Festy out in salt, I don't want to use the standard "stake on" widgets and nick my insulation, since that will eventually start corrosion inside the wires, particularely if they get wet, which they're prone to do where they plug into the taillight assemblies.
See photos.
I finally did it:
1. Ordered the obsolete connectors from Eastern Beaver in Japan.
2. Built a quick-add/quick-remove harness.
It consists of 6" 'extenders" for the taillight harnesse, with the required "converter" ($15 at U-Haul or elsewhere) to THOSE wires, not to the actual Festiva wiring.
The whole enchilada rolls up into a Ziplock bag for use on any Festy anywhere. I’m taking it in my flight bag soon to my East Coast Festy -- with the actual hitch in a small crate as checked baggage -- to haul a rented U-Haul 4x8 trailer 400 miles.
I can now set any Festiva up for towing in 6 minutes:
1. Five minutes to bolt on the hitch.
2. One minute to add the wiring.
and undo it all even faster.
As mentioned in the above thread, I plan to be driving Festies for a good many more years. Since nothing rusts here in the West, and I don't take my East Coast Festy out in salt, I don't want to use the standard "stake on" widgets and nick my insulation, since that will eventually start corrosion inside the wires, particularely if they get wet, which they're prone to do where they plug into the taillight assemblies.
See photos.
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