Braking expectations
Just thought I would throw this out there. I have an 11K pound fifth week towed with my Chevy 2500. I have the Tekonsha Prodigy as my brake controller. This unit is about 7 years old. My quest...
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C Schomer wrote:
RV drum brakes are pathetic. I've spent lots of time going to bigger wire, soldering, verifying volts/amps and even top quality riveted lining and they still sucked! I didn't even bother checking anything when I saw our current 15K 5er still had 12 x 2 drums just like the previous 10k 5er that I did all that work on... I junked that garbage and put on the 8k Kodiak discs/1600 psi Carlisle actuator. Mui bueno!! Craig
I totally agree with Schomer. We did the whole Mor Ryde conversion with 8K axels, disc brakes and bigfoot levelers. We have had a few very abrupt stops (not panic but close) and it stops straight, quickly and without locking up. If you have a big 5'ver you have to have disc brakes.
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