Question about trailer brakes
My brake coils on a Dexter 3500 pound axle are not wearing flat. There is a ridge at the bottom of the coil as if that portion of the coil is beyond the armature on the hub and isn't seeing the wear ...
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That is the way the junk wears. You can resurface the magnet to get it flat again, and also resurface the brake drum armature. Few shops are equipped with the equipment to do the drums and few can get the high finish required. Usually the armature has a limit of .030" stock removal. I have the equipment to do my own.
Brake manufactures install linings that work very poorly till they are burnished and they recommend doing a process to work the he!! out of them in their "burnishing" process. Well guess what, the magnets aren't seated yet and they are worked too hard with the hard use and high settings. So you either break in the new brakes with them operating poorly or you start the process you have just seen. Of course the delivery guy already abused the brakes before the trailer was ever sold.
Brake manufactures install linings that work very poorly till they are burnished and they recommend doing a process to work the he!! out of them in their "burnishing" process. Well guess what, the magnets aren't seated yet and they are worked too hard with the hard use and high settings. So you either break in the new brakes with them operating poorly or you start the process you have just seen. Of course the delivery guy already abused the brakes before the trailer was ever sold.
