[AT] Trailer brakes
Don Bowen
don.bowen at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 6 07:09:33 PST 2009
I know this has been discussed many times here but here goes again. I
had a somewhat harrowing experience yesterday. The road into this place
is a steep graveled quarter mile long. The top end is very steep with a
short shallow section before another steep piece. My two wheel drive
pickup cannot pull the trailer up the hill. Yesterday as I started down
the brakes on the trailer failed. The trailer pushed me down the hill
and about all I could do was pump the brakes, slide, panic as the 30'
drop off got closer, let off on the brakes to head for the other bank,
rinse and repeat. I finally got it stopped on the shallow part and
called a friend. We chained his pickup to the back of the trailer and
went down very slowly. It defiantly made the heart beat much faster.
It took a good application of Pizza and beer last night to set things in
order again.
I thought the brakes were not working right. As I applied the brakes
they would start to come on then grab then let go then grab again. I
stopped and got the brakes working where they seemed to be ok on the
pedal and manual. That is until I went over the hill when they grabbed
then never applied again. Not even manual worked. I thought it might
be a ground so I hooked some jumper cables between the pickup and
trailer but that had no affet. I am thinking the controller may be bad
but I am looking for suggestions on what it could be and how to test. I
am headed for california in a week but the trailer stays here.
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Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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