Article from Couplemate regarding electric drum brakes

RichardK · Senior Member

Article from Couplemate regarding electric drum brakes

Cupie · Guru

Sounds like good stuff. Thanks for that.

https://www.couplemate.com.au/jayco-and-electric-brake-problems

I think that I made it clickable.

BTW ... when I replaced my brakes & bearings on the Westport, I purchased all my stuff from 'Couplemate' I found them to be great to deal with and reasonably priced along with lots of useful information.

RichardK · Senior Member

Yes I find them good to deal with, I buy my disc brake parts from them

Cheers

Richard

iana · Guru

Golly gosh, we have a Silverline, and been down some steep inclines. But I use the brakes as little as possible. But use low gear in the tug,

Cupie · Guru

iana wrote:
Golly gosh, we have a Silverline, and been down some steep inclines. But I use the brakes as little as possible. But use low gear in the tug,

Yep, me too. That's probably why the orig brakes lasted for 200,000 km & still had plenty of meat left on the shoes. A couple of drums were badly scoured & two magnets were stuffed. I probably broke one of them .... One wire broken at the magnet.

iana · Guru

Cupie, one of the first jobs I did on the van was to re-route the brake wiring at the brake assembly, and protect the cabling and plugs/sockets from stone damage with convoluted tubing. I like the idea of chaging the polarity on the magnets at long intervals.
very interesting article.