Toad brakes

RoadHound_RVer wrote:
On my first long haul trip in real mountains with my toad on a Ready Brute braking system. I really like the simplicity and mechanical nature of the RB system but it lacks adjustment of any sort. This has never been an issue but I noticed today running 6% grades with the exhaust brake that I'm smelling the toad brakes when I stop. My TPMS does show the front tires running a few degrees hotter than the rear but i think all is fine at 90 to maybe 100 degrees (confirmed with infrared thermometer).

Is this normal or do you think I have a concern about damaging the toad brakes?

For some crazy reason, some will smell toad brakes (a lot on Jeep Wranglers even though we don't have the problem and if it is in fact a problem) and even when they haven't hardly been used. Don't ask me why, but to answer your question, it's gonna be hard to hurt them, because when the toad catches up with the coach and the brakes apply, it's only until, it's no longer catching up and obviously going to slow down with the brake applied. Also some of this is only enough to turn on the brake light and not really engaging the brakes to any degree. Soooooo, do you have the light on your dash installed, so you can in fact know when the toad's brake pedal is being depressed? Having said that, if you want to be sure, you'll need to wire it like I did mine on the third brake light, so there's no question. I mean the way NSA is selling them, these days, is as a catch all and the light will come on anyway if plugged into the ready brake itself. Even is you forget to connect the brake cable when hitching up. However it would be on a lot without the braking, so one should know with the light being on so much.
I haven't done this with our new coach as yet (the dash LED light), but had plenty experience with the old one and it always performed properly.