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Unhook your boat after a night of fishing and forget to disconnect the safety brake wire. Drive off with it hooked up and pop the hook off. Exactly what happens. Are the brakes locked now. I'm posting here cause I know y'all run glass boats with them.
Dunno...
I got a system like that on my camper....but my camper has its own battery.
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Yes, the brakes are locked if contact is broken between the truck and trailer. Those are same safety wires are on pull-type campers. Look for a connector on the other end. Hook them back together, and the brakes should unlock. Hope this helps you!
Thnx guys
Hey, Bama. The best way to prevent this from happening again, weave the safety brake cable through the safety chain. When you unhook your safety chains, you will see that it is still hooked up.
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Originally Posted by armyman
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On most campers I have seen...when you reconnect the plug.. the brakes will be free...I bet it works the same on the boat..You may have to reconnect the boat wires to the truck if it worked off the truck battery.. Which I assume it did
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Originally Posted by KnightShadow10
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This plug eludes me. Where is it located
I think they are talking about your boat trailer plug. Plug trailer back into the truck and that should free up the brakes.
Did you pop the hook off the cable or did you pull the pin out of the controller?
On a camper the breakaway brake controller is powered by the onboard 12 volt battery. On a trailer without an onboard battery there is a battery pack that's recharged when plugged into the tow.
The pin in the breakaway controller has a notch close to the end. If the pin is pulled the end breaks off, doesn't do any good trying to put it back. The points in the controller can fuse together.
As long as the battery pack has power the brakes will stay on. You can cut one of the wires and kill the power. The controller will need replacing.
I paid $5 to marine tech for that answer.
I'm sorry guys but that ranger trail trailer should have hydraulic disc brakes. If he pulled the cable it should have applied the brakes by pulling a latch that compressed the master cylinder and locked it in place. Have to release latch and reattach cable.
We are not working on a camper trailer with electric brakes. I paid for that info with a bunch of skint mashed fingers.
Ranger has the hydraulic disc brakes and a safety brake. You have to be plugged into your truck for it to backup, going forward is possible bc youre not putting pressure on it, but backing up puts pressure on the cylinder and wont allow it (dont ask how i know this, it was a head scratcher one tired evening!) The safety cable, like it fell off the truck, or leave it hooked up and drive off from trailer, will lock the brakes and you will have to manually unlock the cylinder before you will move it again and put the cable back in.
And now that i read everything on the thread, cray beat me to it!
Look up “trailer brake actuator reset” on YouTube. There is a little tab or button on the bottom of the master cylinder in front of a small hole. Stick a screwdriver up into the hole and prize the actuator rod back while pressing up on the button. That should release the brakes.
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You beat me to it Cray
Lee....if your brakes are locked.....its Specks fault lol. Thats what you get for you and John Doe catching 300 crappie over the weekend without me. [emoji4]
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I hereby withdraw my comment on this thread and yield to greater intelligence on this subject by cray, ducker, roachjwr and Speck!!:biggrin
Well thanks a lot Calvin lol....i was thinking wrong anyway...was thinking electric brakes....forgot some of them fancy rigs got hydraulic.
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They’re not electric brakes. If you just straightened the hook out and the cable didn’t pop loose, you should be good to go. If it pulled out of the actuator, you’ll have to reset it.
Lee, posted over here on the Mississippi board because he was afraid to post on our board, But I promise I won't say anything about it.
Busted!
That and we got Cray!! :biggrin
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