Ready Brake

We've been very pleased with the performance of our ReadyBrute Elite tow bar with an integrated ReadyBrake system. We've used ours with two different toads for a total of 40,000 plus miles, and no problems to date.

I use one on our Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD. I pulled it to Co. and back to Ia. and was very satisfied with it. I did have to re-adjust the cable a couple times.

olfarmer wrote:
I use one on our Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD. I pulled it to Co. and back to Ia. and was very satisfied with it. I did have to re-adjust the cable a couple times.

I am curious. Did you determine why the brake activation cable requied adjustment?

LOVE it, works GREAT with CRV

Be sure to install the ReadyStop as well...we'e used ours for over six years with no problems....Dennis

hanko wrote:
Just got mine hooked up today. I wont be able to use it for a few weeks. It looks like a real simple system. anyone else using this type of braking system

Hanko, did you do the install yourself? I have everything ready to install, just waiting for a good weekdend day to tackle the job. I bought their break away as well which i will need to install.

vic46 wrote:

olfarmer wrote:
I use one on our Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD. I pulled it to Co. and back to Ia. and was very satisfied with it. I did have to re-adjust the cable a couple times.

I am curious. Did you determine why the brake activation cable requied adjustment?

The cable typically needs some readjusting initially to take up the slack as the initial stretch is taken out of the cable and fittings. I installed a turnbuckle in our cable to make adjusting it quicker and easier, but after the first several hundred miles of towing I didn't need to touch it again until I installed the system on our second toad around 30,000 miles later. One or two adjustments then to dial it in, and it's been a couple of years without touching it on this toad. Just to be clear, the cable that gets readjusted is the short hook up cable from the hitch end to the toad loop, not the cable installed in the toad itself.

Billinwoodland wrote:

hanko wrote:
Just got mine hooked up today. I wont be able to use it for a few weeks. It looks like a real simple system. anyone else using this type of braking system

Hanko, did you do the install yourself? I have everything ready to install, just waiting for a good weekdend day to tackle the job. I bought their break away as well which i will need to install.

well sort of, i watched while the other guy did most of the work. I did drill the hole on the front of the car. It really was easy, took us about an hour

Traded in the old toad and move the cable and brake lights hardware to the new toad. Easy job this past weekend. Price for the tow bar has really gone up the past few years.

Dutch_12078 wrote:

vic46 wrote:

olfarmer wrote:
I use one on our Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD. I pulled it to Co. and back to Ia. and was very satisfied with it. I did have to re-adjust the cable a couple times.

I am curious. Did you determine why the brake activation cable requied adjustment?

The cable typically needs some readjusting initially to take up the slack as the initial stretch is taken out of the cable and fittings. I installed a turnbuckle in our cable to make adjusting it quicker and easier, but after the first several hundred miles of towing I didn't need to touch it again until I installed the system on our second toad around 30,000 miles later. One or two adjustments then to dial it in, and it's been a couple of years without touching it on this toad. Just to be clear, the cable that gets readjusted is the short hook up cable from the hitch end to the toad loop, not the cable installed in the toad itself.

Yes as said above, I believe it was mostly the new cable stretching and everything getting broken in, also it took me awhile to decide how aggressive I wanted the brakes to activate on the Jeep. I also put a turnbuckle in the short cable from the hitch to the toad to make it easy to adjust.