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Thank you Titan Guy for demonstrating the disc Brake change out at this years rally. When you get it out for a "test drive", I would like to hear from you about whether there was a significant change from the electric brakes previously installed. You and I have the same trucks and we had the same issue.

With a little more "burnishing" of my current electric brakes, it did make a difference on the way home. In Oklahoma City, they had the I-44/I-35 intersection slowed to a crawl without any warning due to a traffic officer sitting on the side of the road with his overheads on. No one could see the traffic stopped (for absolutely no reason other than him) and I had to stop suddenly. Luckily, we were able to avoid a collision. Someone should give the traffic cop a HUGE ticket for causing the commotion...Personally, I would like to see him held responsible for causing accidents.

Thanks again for all of your advice. It was very helpful and I will be in touch when the time is right to change out to discs...

GipCTravelers

Ron,

Thanks for setting up the brake install demonstration at the Rally. This was very informative to me to see the entire process from jacking up the trailer, supporting the trailer, greasing the bearings, installing the grease seals, installing the disks and calipers and bleeding the brake lines. It gave me a lot of confidence to tackle some of these jobs in the future. It always helps to see some of these things being done first before one tackles the job myself.

Also Ron, I want to thank you, the Redwood factory service crew and Lippert's service tech again for the help all of you gave me on diagnosing and resolving the loss of braking on my RW. After discussing the problem with you, self educating myself online about the Carlisle brake actuator and the CAM module, I discovered, somewhat coincidentally, that there were 3 failures. First, apparently there was a loose wiring issue on the CAM module. Once that was corrected, I then found that the break-away switch was defective; it previously had function okay when checked. I aske RW to replace the switch for me which they did with no question. Finally, after getting the CAM module and the brake actuator working, I hitched up the truck to the trailer and manually activated the brakes; the pump motor operated but still no brakes on trailer. Randy (from the factory service center) then contacted Lippert and they sent out their tech on Friday morning and found that there was a leak in the hydraulic lines. After checking, he found that a flexible hydraulic line at the left front trailer axle was ruptured from a road hazard. The Lippert tech did not have the part on his truck. Now here is the best part......since I knew you had some extra parts for your demo, I offered to buy a line from you (Ron) and you wouldn't let me pay you.....you gave it to me. Ron is one great guy!! Anyway, the line was installed and the brake lines were bled and I had brakes again.

Thanks again Ron.

Guy