azbohunter wrote:
Mike, I appreciate your help and comments as I have waded through this. I have had the intermittant brake problem for a while. When I first dug into it I found the bare wires that were in photo in a ealier post. I cut the bare spots out and used proper connectors with heat shrink. The bare wires were and issue and I am glad I found it and fixed it. Today, I pulled wires out the axle, ran new wires and reconnected them, blue to one side of magnet and white to one side, I was told that it didn't matter which..there is not positive or negative. Correct the magnets don't care one wire to the pos. side one wire to the neg. side.
My thought are that there is more bare wire inside the belly that I can see and from my tugging and moving them around they have grounded to the the frame.possible since they skinned those wires you repaired, they likely skinned others during the install I could run new wire all the way from the plug and bypass the belly to or may even apply 12 volt at the wiring going into the first axle..
I am not a automotive wiring guy, but I have completed rewired a house and a boat with a lot of electronics so I am not totally inexperienced.
I am assuming that the breakway simply sends 12volts to the magnets?correct
You said the wires burnt when you pulled the breakaway where did they melt?