[Rhodes22-list] trailering

[NAPOLI51950 at aol.com]

I am a bit confused with the "chain Problem" affecting the surge brakes.  I 
crossed them over each other to prevent the tongue from dropping to the 
pavement and they hange about 4-5 inches from the road when traveling.  The 
compression stroke is fairly short, maybe 4 inches.  The only problem was when I was 
putting the trailer and boat onto the RV pad which has a fairly steep incline up 
to it.  As I was maneuvering the breaks would lock up ocasionally but only 
briefly.

During the actual trip there were no problems.  I would tap the breaks a bit 
more abruptly to acuate the trailer breaks and then apply steady pressure.  I 
seldom needed to break more than once every 1/2 mile so on a 6% downgrade 
because the wind resistance seem to keep the speed down below 60mph most of the 
time and the truck was in either 4th or 3rd gear (I have a manual transmission 
obviously).

Hope this answers your questions.

Chris