Help 2002 Electronic Brake Control Location

Hi, I have a 2002 Mountaineer (Explorer) which I bought new with the
Class III/IV Factory Tow package. I want to install an electronic brake
controler for electric trailer brakes. When I bought the car, they gave
me a plastic bag with the pigtail connector and a sheet with a wiring
diagram and sketch showing the pre-installed connector on the vehicle.
According to the sheet "a factory installed 6-way gray connector is
located under the instrument panel on the drive side." A caption on the
picture with an arrow pointing to the connector says "6-way gray
connector located on forward edge of instrument panel (1L2T-14401)

I've just spent about two hours under the dash and can't find the
connector. There are no open connectors, except a large green one with
aboout 8 or 10 wires coming out of it mounted on a metal cross bar and
the OBD connector, and in any event, the green one doesn't match up with
the much smaller gray connector with pigtail supplied to me. I even took
apart half of the dashboard and couldn't find it! For laughs I looked
behind the glove box as well. No go. Does anyone know where the gray
connector for the electronic brake control is? Please tell me as soon a
possible. Thank you in advance.

P.S. one more bit of information: The sheet I have references a "2001
Explorer/Mountaineer." My is a 2002, although it's an early build and I'm
pretty sure it was built in 2001. The picture does look just like my
dash. Could it be I was supplied the wrong connector/pigtail and sheet
and that the correct pigtail connects to the big green connector?

You will have to look up behind the knee bolster.... IIRC, the connector
should be to the right of the steering column...

Never mind. I found it. I googled "ford explorer brake controller
location" and found a posting in the Explorer Forum that the brake
control connector is behind the glove box, nothwithstanding that the
sheet supplied by Ford explicity says (and shows with a picture!) that
it's on the drivers side. The jerks at Ford stole two hours of my time
with their incompetance. Anyone got any ideas how I can get it back from
them?

akheel > wrote in
:

> Hi, I have a 2002 Mountaineer (Explorer) which I bought new with the
> Class III/IV Factory Tow package. I want to install an electronic
> brake controler for electric trailer brakes. When I bought the car,
> they gave me a plastic bag with the pigtail connector and a sheet with
> a wiring diagram and sketch showing the pre-installed connector on the
> vehicle. According to the sheet "a factory installed 6-way gray
> connector is located under the instrument panel on the drive side." A
> caption on the picture with an arrow pointing to the connector says
> "6-way gray connector located on forward edge of instrument panel
> (1L2T-14401)
>
> I've just spent about two hours under the dash and can't find the
> connector. There are no open connectors, except a large green one with
> aboout 8 or 10 wires coming out of it mounted on a metal cross bar and
> the OBD connector, and in any event, the green one doesn't match up
> with the much smaller gray connector with pigtail supplied to me. I
> even took apart half of the dashboard and couldn't find it! For laughs
> I looked behind the glove box as well. No go. Does anyone know where
> the gray connector for the electronic brake control is? Please tell
> me as soon a possible. Thank you in advance.
>
> P.S. one more bit of information: The sheet I have references a "2001
> Explorer/Mountaineer." My is a 2002, although it's an early build and
> I'm pretty sure it was built in 2001. The picture does look just like
> my dash. Could it be I was supplied the wrong connector/pigtail and
> sheet and that the correct pigtail connects to the big green
> connector?
>

They used to be mounted just above the gas pedal , about 5" above it and
against the center console bracket, might be on inside of bracket


"akheel" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I have a 2002 Mountaineer (Explorer) which I bought new with the
> Class III/IV Factory Tow package. I want to install an electronic brake
> controler for electric trailer brakes. When I bought the car, they gave
> me a plastic bag with the pigtail connector and a sheet with a wiring
> diagram and sketch showing the pre-installed connector on the vehicle.
> According to the sheet "a factory installed 6-way gray connector is
> located under the instrument panel on the drive side." A caption on the
> picture with an arrow pointing to the connector says "6-way gray
> connector located on forward edge of instrument panel (1L2T-14401)
>
> I've just spent about two hours under the dash and can't find the
> connector. There are no open connectors, except a large green one with
> aboout 8 or 10 wires coming out of it mounted on a metal cross bar and
> the OBD connector, and in any event, the green one doesn't match up with
> the much smaller gray connector with pigtail supplied to me. I even took
> apart half of the dashboard and couldn't find it! For laughs I looked
> behind the glove box as well. No go. Does anyone know where the gray
> connector for the electronic brake control is? Please tell me as soon a
> possible. Thank you in advance.
>
> P.S. one more bit of information: The sheet I have references a "2001
> Explorer/Mountaineer." My is a 2002, although it's an early build and I'm
> pretty sure it was built in 2001. The picture does look just like my
> dash. Could it be I was supplied the wrong connector/pigtail and sheet
> and that the correct pigtail connects to the big green connector?

"akheel" > wrote in message
...
>. The jerks at Ford stole two hours of my time
> with their incompetance. Anyone got any ideas how I can get it back from
> them?

If you find a way, let me know

They still owe me a couple hundred hours

I am having the same exact problem... I found Tech Service Bulliten
14903 issued against this problem and complaints. I don't have an
account with the TSB account and can only get a summary (useless). Can
anyone help me get the detailed summary of the TSB or post a picture or
a better description where it is. I have been searching for over 4
hours now and getting really frustrated.

Thanks for any help...


akheel wrote:
> Never mind. I found it. I googled "ford explorer brake controller
> location" and found a posting in the Explorer Forum that the brake
> control connector is behind the glove box, nothwithstanding that the
> sheet supplied by Ford explicity says (and shows with a picture!) that
> it's on the drivers side. The jerks at Ford stole two hours of my time
> with their incompetance. Anyone got any ideas how I can get it back from
> them?
>

The best I can do is to tell you where I found it. Open the glove box.
There are two tabs on the box, one on each side, which prevent the box from
falling completely open. If you gently bend each one in, it will allow the
glove box to swing all the way down. Now with the glove box out of the way,
you can see well behind it. I found the connector on the left side as you
look into the glove box cavity, up a few inches, taped with black
electrical tape to another harness. So the connector is probably covered
with black electrical tape. Look for something covered with tape about the
size of the connector. Peel off the tape and if you find a connector with
no mate, you probably have the right one.

wrote in news:1151767948.118873.181660
@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

>
> I am having the same exact problem... I found Tech Service Bulliten
> 14903 issued against this problem and complaints. I don't have an
> account with the TSB account and can only get a summary (useless). Can
> anyone help me get the detailed summary of the TSB or post a picture or
> a better description where it is. I have been searching for over 4
> hours now and getting really frustrated.
>
> Thanks for any help...
>
>
> akheel wrote:
>> Never mind. I found it. I googled "ford explorer brake controller
>> location" and found a posting in the Explorer Forum that the brake
>> control connector is behind the glove box, nothwithstanding that the
>> sheet supplied by Ford explicity says (and shows with a picture!) that
>> it's on the drivers side. The jerks at Ford stole two hours of my time
>> with their incompetance. Anyone got any ideas how I can get it back from
>> them?
>>
>
>