Brakes grabbing
Today while cruising along about 60 mph, I suddenly felt the trailer jerk once, pretty hard, about 1/4 mile later another jerk, not so bad. Then everything felt fine for about another mile or so an th...
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bakedalaskan1 wrote:
You have a failed component in one of the brakes that gets wedged once in a while. Spring came off, pad delaminated, or the adjuster fell out. You will have to pull the drums to figure it out.
OP checked drum temps on all the wheels and had elevated temps on all the wheels, basically pointing to something that must be "common" to all brake assemblies..
Whats the "odds" that all four brake backing plates had one or more catastrophic mechanical failures all at once then randomly all at the same time "fix" themselves and then all at once randomly fail at the same time again later?
I suspect slim to none?
All four electromagnets energizing at the same exact time randomly is a much more reasonable possibility which would have a much high chance of probability of happening..
Break away switch definitely could do that as can the brake controller malfunctions in the vehicle or a short in the trailer plug that bridges the charge line to the electric brake wire..
Breakaway switch is a cheap and very easy fix to try..
