Give Credit When It's Due

mtrumpet wrote:

draboo wrote:
We had a set of tires put on our MH and I noticed that the front brakes had seized up. I called a local shop and they recommended a different shop 60 miles away. After further investigation,it was found that our rear brakes had not been working because of the ABS module was bad. Kaiser Brake and Alignment in Eugene,OR let us stay almost a week in the parking lot while awaiting for the warrenty company and the part.We had a 50A service to hook to and a dump station right at the shop.Today, I drove the MH home tonight and the brakes worked fantastic.

If anyone needs work done in the central Oregon area, I highly recommend them. They also stock heavy duty trailing arms for the Monaco/Holiday Rambler units that were under recall.

Thank you, Mel and crew!

Great to hear positive news about a service provider.

I would like to know more about how a bad ABS module would prevent the rear brakes from working? Do you have air brakes, or standard hydraulic brakes? Did they offer any explanation as to how that works? As far as I always knew, even you have a problem with the ABS system, the brake system should still function - without the benefit of ABS braking. Then again, I'm no expert, which is why I'm asking.

The braking system on our mh is electric over hydraulic. The module is a unit about 6X12X4". It has it's own separate ECM. The brake line from the master cylinder feeds this module and two lines come out for the left and right rear wheels. There is a small electric motor in this unit which pulses the brakes. When they tried to bleed the rear brakes, they couldn't get fluid to one side, intermittently. They checked it for codes and it threw 11 or 12. I saw both new and old units. The owner joked about bypassing the ABS to save us money. Thankfully, he was JOKING! The module is quite an engineering feat! I'd like to have one as a conversation piece, but the price tag is a bit high.:)