Brake Controller Showing Short in the System
On the way home Sunday from our last outing our brake controller reads a short in the system. We made it home safely, but the brakes were in & out the whole way home. I used my test light to check ...
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I think John that you will find that you have an intermittent short being caused by a brake wire inside a wheel hub that has broken loose form it's metal clamp and the wire has rubbed thru the insulation on the inner hub of a wheel...
I had 2 shorts like this with 2 different trailers and in both cases, it was exactly that... I know you don't want to pull the hubs but I would be willing to bet that is where the problem lies...
Pulling the hubs isn't that bad and you don't have repack the bearings again if your careful with the removal and re-installation of the hubs...
I know you don't want to hear that, but my money is on a brake wire short inside a hub :( :R
I suspect that your brake controller has now stopped working because the controller now is "fried" because of the short... I also experienced that on the first failure as previously mentioned...
Les
I had 2 shorts like this with 2 different trailers and in both cases, it was exactly that... I know you don't want to pull the hubs but I would be willing to bet that is where the problem lies...
Pulling the hubs isn't that bad and you don't have repack the bearings again if your careful with the removal and re-installation of the hubs...
I know you don't want to hear that, but my money is on a brake wire short inside a hub :( :R
I suspect that your brake controller has now stopped working because the controller now is "fried" because of the short... I also experienced that on the first failure as previously mentioned...
Les
