One brake over adjusted
On a new rig with less than 1500 miles, one self adjusting brake started to smoke. All others were fine. Factory says brakes were all adjusted during manufacture. Dexter says brakes can become unde...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:
Gdetrailer said: "Changing to disc brakes is a pretty extreme drastic uneeded and expensive change which also has some very expensive pitfalls. Disc brakes adds additional maintenance with needing to check brake fluid level and periodic replacement of said fluid. Unless you run DOT5 (silicone) brake fluid (which has it's own problems), it will go bad over time from drawing moisture from the air while the trailer sits still.. Adds in a very expensive EOH pump to the trailer which is a failure point and some brake controllers will rebel with EOH pumps."
A lot of negativity for no reason. Expensive pitfalls? Not hardly.
Everyone that has gone to Disks has said I wish I had done it sooner.
I would love disk braks, just not the 6000 buck bill that comes with them. would be nice if it was a option for them from the factry where you pay the difference so 2000 fo the disk brake option. or somthing like that.
Steve
