[Rhodes22-list] Trailer Brakes

[Herb Parsons]

My surge brakes have a place to put a pin when you're backing up. My understanding is that it's not only when you're backing up uphill, but anytime you are backing up. They also make a servo unit for them that automatically disable the brakes (instead of using a pin) when the tow vehicle is put in reverse.

>>> Dennis McNeely<mcneelyd at site-solutions.com> 8/14/2004 7:12:00 PM >>>
Greetings -

A word about hydraulic brakes - they can set themselves if you try to back 
up hill or when the trailer is jostled going over rail road tracks. 
Otherwise my limited experience has been OK.

Dennis McNeely

At 07:41 PM 8/14/2004, you wrote:
>Saroj,
>
>    I was looking at new trailers this week and saw the inertial braking 
> system mounted on the tongue of these new monsters.  A small box no wider 
> than the 4" tongue contained a master cylinder for the two rear brakes of 
> the trailer.  A sliding mechanism triggers the master cyl to engage when 
> the tow veh begins its braking shoving the hitch fwd and the tongue mech 
> with it being triggered.. I must seem very naive Im sure as these types 
> of devices are all over but It would seem to me you could add this 
> mechanism to any trailer later on..

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