Okie1
Sep 22, 2016Explorer
Disc Brakes
Has anyone converted their fifth wheel to disc brakes? I am thinking of upgrading mine and was wondering if anyone has experience with conversion...
pcm1959 wrote:
Congrats on your new disc and the self install. We installed them on our previous fiver and ordered them from the factory on our current rig. Would never want another fiver without them.
I think it is important to run the lines in a fashion where they are least likely to suffer damage from possible road debris. As we know, the lines get damaged and you have no brakes.
I was extremely fortunate to not have lost my brakes when I could not avoid road debris on a trip a few years ago. The debris hit the sewer discharge and broke it off at the cap, ripped off both holding tank handles, and missed the brake line by about an inch. It would have been ripped loose or bent to a point of being useless but I got lucky.
So just a thought for those with disc, consider a path of protection in your installs. I even considered running the main line inside of a heavy gas line tube dons the side to the split to protect from such a thing in the future.
time2roll wrote:
I love any excuse to get a new tool :)
time2roll wrote:
I love any excuse to get a new tool :)
time2roll wrote:I agree. All that extra tubing, while it may work, looks pretty funky and non-professional. Not hard at all to make a double flare. But the brakes work okay and that was the objective..
Those disks are so beautiful :B
Seems odd to have those extra loops in the fluid tubing. Odd the installer would not cut and double flare the tube to length.
time2roll wrote:
Those disks are so beautiful :B
Seems odd to have those extra loops in the fluid tubing. Odd the installer would not cut and double flare the tube to length.