Lynnmor wrote:
Until they produce brake drums with a close tolerance on run out, I don't want self adjusters. The brakes cannot self adjust properly if the drum does not run true. It is one possibility that may have caused the OP's issue.
????? How can you manually adjust them if you have that much run out? You have the same thing as far as shoes and the drum in relation to run out on either. The shoes do not know if that star wheel was turned by you with a spoon or the adjusting cam, and the adjuster is not going to just keep cranking on it to lcok up no matter what the run out is, thats not how they're designed.
These threads / forums leave me scratching my head. I have had Dexter EZ lube on 4 different recreational trailers, and on so many equipment trailers we have lost count. We have yet to blow a seal and contaminate the brakes. We have also not had any issues with Dexter self adjusting brakes when we have had those. Our equipment trailers get thousands of miles of use yearly, and its hard use. The lube feature and self adjusting brakes are on hundreds of thousands of trailers shipped yearly. One would think all you would see along the roads are broken down trailers with locked up wheels due toself adjusting brakes, or grease spewed everywhere, from reading some of these boards LOL.
Now if you're sporting Lippert axles with their greasing system, which is "Super lube", "EZ lube" is a Dexter trademark, then good luck due to Lippert's use of the cheapest single lip seals they can find, just like all the other trash they peddle. Lots of info on that over at the Grand Design boards and some others, so much so that Grand design stopped using them.
