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Trailer troubles....
So I'm on my way back from the lake, turn off the exit and begin to
stop - I hear this bang/thump from the back of the and the truck just kind of lurched forward. I pulled over, stopped and got out to look around. Nothing on the road so I didn't kill anything human or animal. Stern of the boat looks fine - nobody behind me and nothing fell off. Looked the boat over, no holes in the hull, tire are fine, looked under the truck, nothing there either. Hmmm - oh well. Got back into the truck and started to the end of the ramp - bang/thump, truck lurches again. WTH? Got out look everything over, nope nothing. Hmmm - look up at the front of the trailer and notice something dripping from the trailer tongue - brake fluid. Oh oh. Got back into the truck, pulled forward a little - bang/thump. Pulled into the Wal Mart parking lot (more bang/thump), got out and disconnected the trailer - I can move the actuator by hand. Open the fluid resorvoir - not a drop - it's all dripping out the bottom. Ok - got a problem. Locked out the actuator mechanically and got the trailer hooked up and back home - no bang/thump but the damn trailer and boat is heavy - 5,000 lbs and the truck takes time to slow the load down. Anyway, did the family thing, then took the tongue off the trailer and much to my surprize..sure enough - theres my sign. http://www.swsports.org/images/Solenoid.JPG So I took the thing off the mount, but when I tried to take the brake line off, the whole connector disintegrated into little flakes and I was left with this. http://www.swsports.org/images/Solenoid+line.JPG Here's where it mounts. http://www.swsports.org/images/Tongue%20mount.JPG It looks like the actuator is ok, no rust or anything. I guess I should have looked this over every year or so, but with just under 14K miles on the trailer and it being ten years old with no major issues other than disc and pad replacements (and one bad caliper), it never occured to me to check the compnents inside the tongue. Lesson learned. Now I gotta fund a brake release solenoid. And revamp the entire system inside the trailer tongue system with rubber instead of steel. Oy... |
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