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Trailer Brakes – Part 3

The last couple of days have been pretty quiet around here, mostly due to illness -- no, not H1N1 -- moving through our household. Now that everyone, including myself, has pretty much recovered, things are getting back to the normal type of chaos our household usually resembles. I haven't done much to the trailer in the last couple of days other than soak a few bolts in penetrating lube in the hopes that they may come off. Tonight I was able to remove the brake line that runs from the ...

Trailer Brakes – Part 2

As expected, the new master cylinder arrived today and I have just finished a quick test fit to make sure everything lined up. 100% success! Sadly, when I came out this morning, the shock absorber had leaked a bunch of the fluid so it looks like that part will need to be replaced. Unfortunately I've started to catch a cold, just in time to start Autumn, so I won't be doing much on the brakes tonight, but the successful test fit has me feeling pretty good. I've also just emailed Wes at...

Trailer Brakes/Bearings – Part 1

The first part of my planned winter trailer maintenance was to check the status of the wheel bearings and dig in to the braking system to see what needed to be replaced/serviced. For more information on how surge brakes work, check out this eHow article. As I mentioned in my previous post, the brake system is 100% non-operational, there is no brake fluid in the system, all but one of the brake shoes came off when I removed the drums and the master cylinder is seized up from years of sittin...