Brake Controllers again - I'm learning this prodigy may not be the best setup

SuiteSuccess · July 7, 2017

Blue,

Be sure and give mom & dad a big hug.? Our youngest daughter, son in law, who is active duty military, and their three children are living with us while they are waiting to close on a house in mid August. The oldest is a 14 y.o grandson who "needs his privacy". Little disruptive to our old daily retired routine but small price to pay. I see an extended camping trip in our near future.

BlueLghtning · July 7, 2017

Yeah, Mom & Dad are great. I've never lived more than 30 mins away from them so this is definitely new for all of us as my wife and I hit the road. They are certainly glad to have us here for a little while and enjoying our company. My dad rides motorcylces with me and I would see him and my mom weekly at our bike nights. My brother has the grandkids so that keeps mom close by and busy baby sitting them or I think they might be on the road themselves.

My wife has a little more Gypsy in her and although her parents are in GA & TN, she seems to be okay going longer times between seeing them.

Star Dreamer · July 8, 2017

We have the P2 in our Freightliner and the numbers read out when I hit the brakes. I cannot feel the trailer braking even on the highest setting but we have issues with our trailer brakes (usually only 3 of 6 working) which would be better discussing in a separate topic.

I like the P3 better which we had in our dually but the P2 came with the HDT, so we didn't think to swap it out before we sold the dually.

Dave

jollyrogr · July 9, 2017

P3 seems to work great in my LDT, but I'd probably go with a Hayes unit on a HDT. That's my plan anyway when I get permission from the accountant to get a truck.

lockmup68 · July 11, 2017

So I finally got rid of the phantom left turn signal activating the brakes by ditching the techonsha and installing the Hayes. Just drove 1800 miles and love it. I also installed jackalopee and all new wiring. Hayes was simple to install. If I would have had time, probably would have done direct link or blue dot, but got the Hayes on amazon next day.

Now for AC fix....106 in Rapid City when we pulled in yesterday.

BlueLghtning · July 15, 2017

Woohoo, I think we have progress. I brought the truck over to Mom & Dad's tonight and my Dad & I went to town tracing down all the wires and checking all the connections. We checked everything from the brake controller connection all the way through the firewall and followed everything all the way back. The brake light wire which is red was the main culprit and didn't seem to be making a good connection where it's wired under the cab near the batteries into another connector. It's hooked up with one of those crimp style connectors where it just uses a metal bar inside the plastic housing to make the connection. I didn't have what I needed to do it better at this point, but I was able to adjust it and make sure it's making contact. After we adjusted that and made sure we had 12 volts coming out of there then we verified we are getting voltage off the blue wire at the rear of the plug with the pedal. I also went back to the trailer and hooked up to it to verify now that I have numbers on the brake controller when I press the service brake in the truck. That wasn't happening before. I have to take the trailer out Tuesday for new tires so I'll test it then.