Trailer Brake Stopping Distance
We recently took delivery on a new Arctic Fox trailer. The trailer brakes apparently were not adjusted at the factory - no brakes at all when using the manual brake controller, even when set on max. ...
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Lynnmor wrote:
Wearing the brakes in may help a little bit, but that ain't the problem. Do you think that the auto industry sends millions of cars out the door with no brakes? You need to pull the drums and take a look. While a wheel is jacked up, pull the pin and the wheel should lock.
I'm telling ya, when axles are new, if they are more than 75% loaded, they can take a while for the brakes to break in. Brand new Rockwell American was EXACTLY the same as the AL-KO that came new with our trailer. A bit of brake controller / brake shoe abuse at low speeds as a previous poster poster has remedied that.
EDIT - That being said, we did replace the old axle because the seals wouldn't last, and the brakes got contaminated with grease. That causes some weird oscillations and pulling though.
