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Mark_and_Linda
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Jun 03, 2013

For the new travel trailer owners, things that happen to me.

Thought I would put this out to the new people who are learning so they don't make the mistakes I have made in the past year. 1. Awning, don't assume the water will run off of it without tilting o...
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Campfire_Time
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Jun 03, 2013
6.7 tow rig wrote:
tbratzel wrote:
.....and remember to turn off the trailer brakes when backing in to your camping spot !!


Am I missing something with this one? Why would you do that. I've never heard such a thing


This advice may have come from someone who pulled a smaller trailer that had hydraulic surge brakes. I had them on a PUP. Because of how the mechanism works you had to manually disengage the brakes to back up.

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