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Tars Tarkas
Senior Member Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Location: Near Nashville Online Status: Offline Posts: 1446 |
Topic: brakes 2017/179 Posted: 19 Jan 2019 at 9:21am |
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Clean connections seem to be the culprit at least 80% of the time in my experience. Some kind of contact cleaner is essential occasionally and whenever there is a problem like this; I've never heard of using vinegar, but I guess that could work. I have used a knife to scrape the contacts on the umbilical and on the TV bargman. Things can be hooked up right and look fine, but just a little bit of corrosion or dirt on the contacts can be enough to make something not work. TT
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lgblau
Senior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2018 Location: Arizona Online Status: Offline Posts: 140 |
Posted: 19 Jan 2019 at 1:00pm | |
I appreciate all the suggestions. I will try them all.
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Leonard🌵
2017/179 2017 Ram 1500 |
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GlueGuy
Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2624 |
Posted: 19 Jan 2019 at 4:18pm | |
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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TheBum
Senior Member Joined: 26 Feb 2016 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 1407 |
Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 2:37pm | |
You can clean the lime scale off of most anything, including fiber (but not paper) humidifier filters. |
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Alan
2022 R-Pod 196 "RaptoRPod" 2022 Ram 1500 Lone Star 4x4 Three cats |
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lgblau
Senior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2018 Location: Arizona Online Status: Offline Posts: 140 |
Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 2:44pm | |
Found the two wires on the passenger side completely separated. Good as new now. Thanks for all the help. Great group.
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Leonard🌵
2017/179 2017 Ram 1500 |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6283 |
Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 4:22pm | |
Glad you got that straightened out! Thanks for updating us.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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lgblau
Senior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2018 Location: Arizona Online Status: Offline Posts: 140 |
Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 8:57pm | |
P.S. I forgot to mention that the two leads from the brake side were clean cuts. No frays, etc. I must have driven over someone with a knife. 😎
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Leonard🌵
2017/179 2017 Ram 1500 |
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craigwood
Newbie Joined: 31 Oct 2016 Location: New Meadows ID Online Status: Offline Posts: 21 |
Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 8:56am | |
Had a similar issue last year on a 7000 mile trip where my TV (2017 F150) was suddenly telling me my trailer ('15 179) was disconnected - scary indeed. Of course it wasn't. Found the problem to be a broken connection under the wheel well leading to the brakes. Quick splice using electrical tape and I was back on the road for a few days before the other side of the same connection also came apart. Lowes (and I am sure others) have small 'weather-proof' wire nut connectors available for a better, more permanent fix. I've always hated the wires and connections just hanging loose under the pod - just waiting to work loose, get corroded and quit working - poor design in my book.
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 9:32am | |
The displacement type connectors FR uses are not best practice. There is only a very small electrical contact area. Butt splices or even soldered connections with exterior (adhesive lined) heat shrink tubing is a much better system, but much more time consuming which is of course why they don't do it. You can find a detailed installation video (part of how to install new brakes) on etrailer for this.
The exterior listed wire nuts for residential use aren't meant for locations subject to vibration and movement so I wouldn't recommend those.
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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mcarter
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419 |
Posted: 22 Jan 2019 at 3:10pm | |
Craigwood,
I removed all the FR applied toe wraps and replaced with heavy duty tie wraps, 3/8" in width, also removed lot of the slack and laid wiring up and out of the way. |
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Mike Carter
2015 178 " I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability." |
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