Electric brake effectiveness
I recently purchased a new bumper pull trailer with two 7K axles under it and load it to about 12,000lbs. I am pulling it with an equally new Ford truck with max trailer tow and brake controller. Wh...
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.... normal for new trailer brakes to have as little as 25% effectiveness and that as many as 30 hard stops and an adjustment were needed to wear them in before they work at full potential.
Correct....normal for new electric brakes
Per Dexter Electric Brake Manual.....pg. 11
Before any synchronization adjustments are made, your trailer
brakes should be burnished-in by applying the brakes 20-30
times with approximately a 20 m.p.h. decrease in speed, e.g. 40
m.p.h. to 20 m.p.h. Allow ample time for brakes to cool between
application. This allows the brake shoes and magnets to slightly
“wear-in” to the drum surfaces.
Dexter Manual
Good info pgs....11, 12, 13 on break in and adjustments
Correct....normal for new electric brakes
Per Dexter Electric Brake Manual.....pg. 11
Before any synchronization adjustments are made, your trailer
brakes should be burnished-in by applying the brakes 20-30
times with approximately a 20 m.p.h. decrease in speed, e.g. 40
m.p.h. to 20 m.p.h. Allow ample time for brakes to cool between
application. This allows the brake shoes and magnets to slightly
“wear-in” to the drum surfaces.
Dexter Manual
Good info pgs....11, 12, 13 on break in and adjustments
