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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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Please don't listen to the guy at Dexter, he's an idiot.
The proper way to bed in brakes.
That link is for disk brakes.
The part about a film is correct. The newer drum type trailer brakes use an adhesion technology that is different than the old asbestos friction materials. Till the brake shoes wear to conform to the drum diameter, and lay down a film, full braking power will not be realized. The problem with hard braking with new electric brakes is that the magnets will be over worked and will gall the armature surfaces because they have yet to be seated.
