Does any not pull their emergency trailer brake cable?
I am now on my second trailer, and never have pulled it. I have always had a fear that the brakes would lock up. Any one else feel the same ! Guy
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I hate to tell you this guys but, most of the people I go camping with never even bother to make their brakes work. But, we all pull small trailers within 100 miles of our homes.
Had buddies when I was a kid that owned cars where the brakes barely worked. A friend with a 63 Falcon comes to mind. One late night when we were teenagers we got hungry and they decided to go um,, "liberate" some apples from a orchard. They let me drive the car as they did this. I found that the brakes didn't work, the emergency brake didn't work, and that park had been torn out of the tranny. They were mad at me when it took me 3 times to coast to a stop in the just the right place.
After growing up like that I don't feel the least bit unsafe if I don't risk pulling my brake switch to test it. I'm the only person within 100 miles of here that even has trailer brakes. (Unless you have a big 5th wheel then that is different)
And, I did try to pull it once and I could not get it back in because the plastic broke . I went to the dealer to get a new one. He told me there are several different "keys" to go in a switch and he didn't have that one. So he sold me a new switch. He had to force the key to get it into the switch. I tried to pull it back out on the way to the parking lot and it would not come back out. I took it back to him and he told me that there had to be electricity to the switch to get it back out. But, he sold me a new one that was completely together this time. I put it on the TT and I will never pull it again. Way to much hassle to test a safety device you will never need.
Had buddies when I was a kid that owned cars where the brakes barely worked. A friend with a 63 Falcon comes to mind. One late night when we were teenagers we got hungry and they decided to go um,, "liberate" some apples from a orchard. They let me drive the car as they did this. I found that the brakes didn't work, the emergency brake didn't work, and that park had been torn out of the tranny. They were mad at me when it took me 3 times to coast to a stop in the just the right place.
After growing up like that I don't feel the least bit unsafe if I don't risk pulling my brake switch to test it. I'm the only person within 100 miles of here that even has trailer brakes. (Unless you have a big 5th wheel then that is different)
And, I did try to pull it once and I could not get it back in because the plastic broke . I went to the dealer to get a new one. He told me there are several different "keys" to go in a switch and he didn't have that one. So he sold me a new switch. He had to force the key to get it into the switch. I tried to pull it back out on the way to the parking lot and it would not come back out. I took it back to him and he told me that there had to be electricity to the switch to get it back out. But, he sold me a new one that was completely together this time. I put it on the TT and I will never pull it again. Way to much hassle to test a safety device you will never need.
