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Open Roads Forum  >  Travel Trailers  > How othen do you test the breakaway brake system? This Topic Is Closed  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 3   Next BlindGuynAR • View posts Bentonville, AR Full Member Joined: 09/14/2009 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 03/09/10 06:30pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I jacked up the axles this last weekend to check the brakes and pump some grease in the axles for the up coming road trip. Just to see how it worked I decided to pull the breakaway cable to make sure the system worked. Well to my surprise it didn't! I traced the issue to a broken connection in the connection box. Easy fix, but it had not occured to me that checking it should be on one of my pre-trip checklists. I've got a 2200+ mile trip starting next week and I am sure glad I checked this out. My TT is basicly brand new so the issue had to have occured at the factory? Anyway is this something you guys check on each trip? I always check brakes, but hadn't checked breakway in the past. TV -- 2007 F-150 Lariat Screw - Borla Cat-Back Exhaust - Whipple SuperCharged 10 psi - BCAuto Custom Trans Valve Body - B&M Trans Pan - Mike Troyer Tuned 445 RWHP 495 RWTQ - 09 F150 towing mirrors - 10 F150 E-FANS TT -- 2010 Jayco JayFlight 28BHS - Hensley Arrow nickelAF • View posts Charleston, WV Senior Member Joined: 02/01/2009 View Profile Offline Posted: 03/09/10 06:34pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Once in two years by accidentally pulling the cable while unhitching. 07 Arctic Fox 31WRB 04 6.0L 4X4 Excursion Hgarnerno1 • View posts Tyler, Texas USA Senior Member Joined: 12/04/2002 View Profile Offline Posted: 03/09/10 06:37pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I have never tested mine, but sure will before the next trip. Thanks Howard, USN Ret 2000 Ford Excursion,V10, Limited 2003 Terry 27H. Super Slide FormerHR • View posts Inez, Texas Senior Member Joined: 05/26/2006 View Profile Offline Posted: 03/09/10 06:40pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I haven't ever tested mine, not a bad idea after seeing your post. I do remember seeing something in my Prodigy installation guide about not pulling the break away cable when the trailer is plugged into the truck. Something about it may fry the Prodigy. Ryan and Persephone (Seph)+ a boy (9) and girl (7) 2005 Cummins Quad Cab 2wd 2008 Terry 295BHDS Prodigy Brake Controller Pullrite Superglide Dual Honda EU2000i's 2007 EZ-GO ST Custom Cart Terrydactile • View posts Bessemer, Alabama Senior Member Joined: 08/08/2008 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 03/09/10 06:47pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I've never tested mine either. Question....so if you don't jack a tire off the ground when testing, how do you know the brakes have been activated by the break away? Is it just a matter of pulling the break away and then trying to move the TT with the TV? I mean, that's what I would do. What do you guys do? Scott & Theresa Boyd 2 Daughters (Cassie & Brittany) 1 Furkid (Ella, a Basset Golden mix) '08 Keystone Passport 280BH LVJJJ • View posts NW WASHINGTON Senior Member Joined: 12/29/2006 View Profile Offline Posted: 03/09/10 07:08pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator since the emergency brake system locks up the brakes, wouldn't that fry the magnets and deplete the battery if you tested it too long? 1965 CHEVY VAN, 292 "Big Block 6" 1985 WILDERNESS 3000CL 2008 HHR L(Larry)V(Vicki)J(Jennifer)J(Jesse)J(Jason) Vet Man • View posts Ct. & Florida Senior Member Joined: 09/28/2003 View Profile Offline Posted: 03/09/10 07:34pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator My friend pulled mine yesterday after towing with the Brake Buddy for many years. It did not work, have not found the problem yet. 2008 Itasca Sunrise 35A 2008 Honda CRV Toad 2010 ZR1 Colorado Toad "We Traveled To Alot Of Different Places While On Vacation, Until The wife Asked Directions" mosseater • View posts Dillsburg, PA Senior Member Joined: 10/19/2007 View Profile Offline Posted: 03/09/10 07:42pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Why couldn't you pull it just before you move out,then try to move the trailer? Obviously, not the time when you want to find a problem like that, but as a general means of checking it. What could it hurt? I assume it applies full power to the brake coils just like standing on the manual lever? "It`s not important that you know all the answers, it`s only important to know where to get all the answers" Arone Kleamyck "...An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper Sunset Creek 298 BH mowermech • View posts Billings, MT Senior Member Joined: 06/28/2003 View Profile Offline Posted: 03/09/10 08:07pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator State law here in Montana requires that the breakaway system hold the brakes applied for 15 minutes (I think the statute is in MCA 61 something, you can find it with a little searching). I don't test mine EVERY time I hook up, but frequently. Just pull the pin, and try to move the trailer (WITHOUT the umbilical connected to the truck), then put the pin back. then remember to connect the umbilical before driving off! CM1, USN (RET) '94 Dodge 3500 4X2 CTD, 5 speed, 4.10 LS diff., Jacobs Rambrake, 275,000 Miles '95 Tioga 29H Ford-based Class C Daily driver: 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Hemi Toad: 2006 Jeep Rubicon LJ "When seconds count, help is only minutes away!" pasusan • View posts PA Senior Member Joined: 05/13/2009 View Profile Posted: 03/09/10 08:22pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Once a year when the trailer gets its annual inspection. I'll have to look into that disconnecting the cable first - I don't remember them doing that.... And - can you really fry the magnets by leaving them on too long? Trip Pics Our nest isn't empty - it's half full. Susan & Ben ~ 84 Bronco & 90 Award Classic 23 joined with a Hensley Cub This Topic Is Closed  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 3   Next Open Roads Forum  >  Travel Trailers  > How othen do you test the breakaway brake system?

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