Surge brakes not working at all-Clunking forward loud!

[billnorman1]

dallas101_1999


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Location Toronto
Posts 71




For crap sake, doesn't a BBC member live near him that knows trailer brakes? They ain't rocket science, but troubleshooting and diagnosing them via texts is not accurate either.

[PatriotAW4]

Mine has breaks they just don't work, haven't missed them.

[dallas101_1999]

Thanks Bill i never thought to ask if any members would potentially see this. Good call. Ill make some calls tomorrow, now that i at least have oil in and can travel farther. However i'll be damn sure to call the trailer place to see what they are willing to do.
Cheers!

[billnorman1]

Well in the mean time you might consider using a nut and bolt to block out the master cylinder until you get them fixed. Don't tell anybody I said that.

[dallas101_1999]

Mums the word.

[Tom B]

more than likely you have a break line leaking. happened to mine and when I crawled under trailer found out that after many years of break line rubbing against the frame it wore hole in line

[badbasser]

It made the noise by just pulling it into their lot and hitting the brakes so they heard it. But no they didnt take a ride with me. I asked them to but there were 4 people in their lot looking at it and heard it.

Mike, did yours make a horrible noise coming fro the wheels when you hit the brakes?

Did they replace the pads?

[ifishinxs]

Trailer brakes are simple and easy as they come. It’s not rocket science. Actuators are simple to replace and bleed. Caliper are just as easy. You can screw it up a whole bunch of times until you get it right and still come out ahead of paying someone else to screw it up. Learn something new and have a better understanding of how things work.

[DewRonInc]

Actuator needs to be replaced, been there

[Smalliefan2]

Had same issue with my trailer. Loud clunking stopping, and starting. Added brake fluid, leaked out. Replaced actuator, solved the issue. Easy if you have any mechanical sense. Took a while to bleed the brake lines, as the whole system was dry.