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I forgot to back off the brake controller setting before sending my truck and fiver down the road with an inexperienced driver at the wheel. I was following along behind and noticed some very black l...
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4x4ord wrote:LanceRKeys wrote:
I wish my trailer brakes worked that well!
That's what you get with electric over hydraulic disc brakes .... square tires.:)
I also get strong, consistent and well modulated stops. The only time that I got flat spots on my tires was when I forgot to adjust the brakes for being unloaded. Since my electric over hydraulic brakes are on an equipment trailer there is about a 3 to 1 weight difference between loaded and unloaded so the adjustment really needs to be made. It probably wouldn't be much of an issue on a camping trailer. My only complaint about the electric over hydraulic brakes is that it does take a fraction of a second for the brakes to pump up when stopping. But that is a lot better than running red lights due to brakes not delivering when needed.
Since I have a gravel driveway I generally set my trailer brakes to skid on gravel then fine tune them on the road to match the truck brakes.
One thing to remember about daisy-chain leaf springs is that when braking they are prone to skidding the front axle. This is due the way the torque on the axles shift weight to the rear axle. This generally isn't an issue except in panic stops anyway so you are probably best off with a setting that locks the front brakes every now and then. I have pulled a trailer with only rear brakes and lifted the front axle off the ground in a hard stop. At least I got good braking effort for that stop.
