Electric brake effectiveness

Lynnmor wrote:

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.

LOL, they haven't used asbestos in brakes since I had to adjust carburetors or change points. :B
Disk or drum it doesn't really matter. The point is, you don't want to glaze the pads or shoes. You want to build up the film gradually and not smoke you hell out of the friction material.

The part about the armature is very true and that's why my advice is the same to the OP, don't listen to the Dexter guy, he's an idiot. :)

PS. My experience with trailer brakes is this. Bedding won't really do much for performance overall. It's very negligible at best. I've seen a lot of junk trailer brakes out there from the factory. It seems like the newer they are the more they are likely to be junk. I have a set of 50's axels on my car trailer and it will smoke all 4 tires at 70 miles/hour at full load if I want.