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Tail light wires cut

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Hello everyone,

I've been a lurker for a long time but I now have ran into an issue I need some help with. Last year I had a local shop put a flatbed on my 24 3500 and everything went fine with the install, however - yesterday I took the flatbed off and put the box back on, and I was putting the final touches on the install and noticed I hadn't hooked up the tail lights. I reach up near the lights and see a pig tail dangling that has been cut. No idea why they cut them, it's so easy to unhook them - but now I find myself in the situation of finding new wiring. One dealership said there's little pigtails I can buy, and another wanted to sell me the entire wiring harness. They closed before I could get any real answers, I'll just have to wait until Monday there.

I'm hoping I don't have to buy the entire harness. My main questions are:

1) Does anyone know if I can buy just the taillight wiring? I would need both L and R. Above the spare tire I have the connector still for the lights.
2) Do both tail lights have their own wiring that comes down a T of some sort, then plugged into the main harness?

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
If they just cut the jumper harnesses for the lights then that's all you would need, the jumper harnesses are a couple feet long
 
Yeah this is what it looks like. I can only find one connection below though, so I was curious if there should have been a junction or something?
 

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You can easily just splice the wires back together. Get a kit of butt splices from the auto parts store and a crimper tool, and splice the wires back together.
 
Hey guys thanks for the responses. After digging into it more, I think they mangled the actual harness more than anything. I took a few images. Part of me wants to take the bed back off and rerun that harness properly, but before I do I wanted to see if anyone was able to notice any issues with the harness itself, and I'll order a new one.

Once I had the bed back on originally and noticed issues with the wiring, I just slapped together what I could just to drive the 125 miles back home. To me it looks like they cut the tail light wires, wired them together with the connector wire for the tail lights on the flatbed.

The company who installed the flatbed agreed to look at the truck next week.

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If you happen to have any photos of the truck with the flatbed installed, I would appreciate seeing them. Thinking about that path as well.
 
Figured I would come back for an update just incase something in the next 20 years runs into this issue like I did. So what they did was take the pigtails, cut them - then brought them together in that other connector I circled above. I just got two new pigtails, and unplugged what they did - plugged in the new pigtails and I'm right as rain.

Superjoe83 was correct, just needed the two jumpers. The only way I figured out what they were was by checking the labels on the wire harness, and then it clicked. Stupid me.
 
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