Re: Towing Questions?

From: Jason Bleazard (dml@bleazard.net)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 08:50:30 EDT


On Tue, September 21, 2004 11:50 pm, jon@dakota-truck.net said:
>
> Hmmm, that doesn't sound right to me. Is your trailer equipped with
> electric
> brakes, or are they surge brakes? If they are surge brakes, then it is
> true that you don't need an in-cab brake controller.

It might very well have surge brakes, and just use the 7-pin wiring
adapter as a matter of convenience. Definitely something to check out.

> (Ask them what is controlling the electric
> trailer brakes, if it isn't an in-cab controller.)

Possibly the people telling you that you don't need a brake controller are
the same people who will tell you "nah... you don't need brakes, just aim
for something soft and cheap!" While that's an amusing thing to say, it's
not the soundest safety advice.

> A weight distributing hitch is a system that uses a special receiver
> bar along with torsion bars;

Some pictures might help:
http://www.draw-tite.com/info/info/info_wgtdist.shtml

Actually, Jon, I seem to recall you posting something similar when I asked
the same question about a year and a half ago :-).

-- 
Jason Bleazard  http://www.bleazard.net  Burlington, Ontario
his:  '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white
hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black



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