Need Info on Servicing my Electric Brake

[jeepfever]

As the title says I need info on how to service my trailer's electric brakes.

I have a twenty year old Terry travel trailer, double axles with low mileage. Tonight I removed one of the brake drums and discovered a lot of rust. Do I simply carefully dismantle all the brake hardware and clean off the rust?

Maybe somebody has a link to a website for me. Any info would be muchly appreciated.

[theonlybull]

you can, if the shoes are getting worn at all. you can usually buy complete sets of backing plates, shoes, magnet, and hardware for only a few dollars more then shoes alone...

what's rusty? the drum? just surface rust? or are all the links rusted to the point of not moving?

www.rv.net/forum/
try that forum. they seem pretty decient

[Jeepy]

Try your Princess auto, the one here sells backing plate, hardware, magnet and shoes for less than I paid for the shoes alone at Parts for trucks.

[Paul Boudreau]

clean the rust of the drum and get the adjuster free, set tem to where the brake sligthly drag, the way it works is that the magnet stick to the drum ad pull the brake out when applied so you need the brake area clean and the magnet area clean, if you have more question call me, if the brake are week use my truck it can stop that trailler pretty easy with out the trailer brake, the truck is mine but take it like it is your's anytime any moment

[©Big6™]

I bought the entire backing plate with brakes complete from provincial spring in Halifax. They were the only place I could find the tiny brakes for my tent trailer.

[jeepfever]

Thanks for the info and the link guys.

Today I managed to crawl under my trailer, jack it up and pull the brake drums off of one side. I found two surprises; that I had electric brakes on both axles and that the brake setup wasn't all that different than those found under any other vehicle.

There was surface rust, easy to clean up and the brake mechanism was seized together. As long as I remembered how it came apart I was okay with dismantling it, cleaning the parts and reassembling it back together with just a bit of grease wear the shoes rub the backing plate.

I made one mistake trying to remove an inner bearing and broke it. Tomorrow I'll have to pick up a new one. On the second axle I simply wiped out the old grease rather than removing the inner bearing.