Ready Brake

The Ready Brake kit is here. I have looked at my options for routing the cable. Anyone mounted a Ready Brake cable in a first gen Honda CRV? Cable routing will be interesting. I have to come around the business end of the engine, avoiding the accessory drive belts and go down under the radiator without touching the exhaust. It will be tight. My other option would be to run under the engine. There's a metal tab welded to the frame under the radiator that I can either use or I'll need to cut off and re-weld another tab. Then it looks like I will need to cut out a piece of the front bumper on the bottom side where it will never be seen. No biggie, I'll figure it out. The breakaway system should be the easy part.

Sandy & Shirley wrote:
We are about to follow the same path to tow our 2014 Ford Focus. The problem with the Focus is that the last step in hooking up is to unhook the battery so their onboard computer will not try to change gears while towing.

I just had our 2014 Focus setup for towing with the Ready Brute Elite tow bar and braking. It's very easy to get on the road now. Installing a negative disconnect switch makes disconnecting the negative battery cable a job that takes seconds. Pop the hood, turn the knob to disconnect the cable and drop the hood.

I have the surge brake installed now. It's a very easy job. I will get the break away system done next. It looks even easier except that I cant figure out where to mount the cable locking device just yet. But, I haven't spent much time with that. It's hot out so, I'll wait till later to do that part. The ready brake system is very simple and works really well.

I am at Blue Ox right now having their Auto Stop (their version of the Ready Brake) installed. Routing on my car looked 'tough' as did getting two holes through the firewall (for the supplemental and for the breakaway systems) at an angle that is good for pulling straight on the brake arm while still missing all the other 'stuff' there. Seemed like something I'd rather have them do vs. me.