Setting the Trailer Brake Controller
When setting the trailer brake controller, how much pull is acceptable on the TV when braking? I ask cause I went through a set of trailer brakes in 1,600 mile, most of which were highway miles. The...
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As said, you should not feel the trailer pulling the truck back.
Your level of braking effort by the truck with the trailer attached should "feel" similar to the braking effort required when running bobtail.
Couple things to consider.
1. You show you're in Denver, so presuming most of the miles are in the mountains?
2. Brand new trailer, can you confirm that the brakes weren't dragging? Did all 4? brakes wear out. How bad were they? Presume you saw them?
3. I'd start out low and dial them up as needed. Or something was wrong. Presume you have some experience towing and weren't riding the brakes down every pass.
In my experience, one has to put alot of miles on the wear out trailer brakes. One of our work trailers, pulled by....everyone, overloaded enough to flatten the springs in 2 years is still on orig brakes. Personal trailers over the years, way more miles than what you got and plenty of mountain driving, I havent replaced a set of brakes yet.
Something is amiss.
Your level of braking effort by the truck with the trailer attached should "feel" similar to the braking effort required when running bobtail.
Couple things to consider.
1. You show you're in Denver, so presuming most of the miles are in the mountains?
2. Brand new trailer, can you confirm that the brakes weren't dragging? Did all 4? brakes wear out. How bad were they? Presume you saw them?
3. I'd start out low and dial them up as needed. Or something was wrong. Presume you have some experience towing and weren't riding the brakes down every pass.
In my experience, one has to put alot of miles on the wear out trailer brakes. One of our work trailers, pulled by....everyone, overloaded enough to flatten the springs in 2 years is still on orig brakes. Personal trailers over the years, way more miles than what you got and plenty of mountain driving, I havent replaced a set of brakes yet.
Something is amiss.
