Trailer brakes
I recently had complete new brake assemblies installed on my 2003 coachmen TT. It is 24' long and weighs under 5K. With the old brakes I had my prodigy brake controller set to 8.6. To calibrate the...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Trailer drum brakes have to be adjusted so that there is a slight drag on shoes/drum
Then the new shoes have to be 'burnished' so shoe material 'wears in' to drum surfaces ---same with new magnets
DITTO.
I did RV transport for a few years. The brakes barely worked at the beginning of the trip, and I always hd to set my brake controller to Boost 2 or 3 (Prodigy).
By the end of the trip, the brakes were working well enough that I could dial back the controller to Boost 1 or the non boost setting.
