Brake Controller Set Up - Tekonsha Primus IQ
I'm inexperienced with trailers and just installed a Primus IQ and used it with a newish trailer that likely was never towed with the brakes active. All I did was set a recommended boost per the man...
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mcman56 wrote:
I did not read about the manual lever until I put the trailer away. I'll do that next. What I'm really concerned about is the hot brakes. This was just an easy roll around flat surburbia. What will happen in the mountains?
If the brakes were too hot to touch. You need to get them checked. And if you set them cold. You may have too much power going to them. they really need to be adjusted warm. They work a lot better after they warm up.
IF you do mountains right nothing will happen. When you start down the mountain. Pull the transmission back to a lower gear, depending on the steepness of the grade. You may even need to go all the way to 1st gear. But do it BEFORE you start down, do not start down faster than the slowest speed you will be going. IF you have a gas engine, doing that will hold the TV, and TT back, and you will not have to use the brakes so much. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, tow in the mountains in overdrive.
Do NOT ride the brakes, use the gears. IF you have diesel. This won't work so well unless it has some sort of exhaust, or trany brake.
go slow, use the gears. You will be fine.
