BJ Trailer Brake Adjustment Instructions?

[Gridgway]

I forgot to get brake adjustment instructions from BJ. Does anyone have them in electronic form I could have?

Thanks

Graham

[Mankee]

These are quite old and apply to my Minno, but they might be useful to you as well, Graham?

 

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[Gridgway]

Thanks, that makes sense. I was wondering with a twin axle trailer whether any balancing was needed as there are 4 bowden cables being pulled?

Graham

[The Pikey]

Always a good idea to balance the brakes.

 

First off and most importantly make sure the shoes are not sliding down to allow the trailer to reverse otherwise it will not be posable to adjust accurately. If you can't tow it forwards into the place you want to work on it the best way to do this is to pull it along by hand and sort of pull the hand brake on a bit just so the shoes grab, this shoves the shoes where they need to be. At this point do not push the trailer backwards and do not rotate the wheels backwards while setting up. I think the above is why some people bugger the job up.

 

Jack it up so all 4 wheels are off the ground. loosen the brake linkage rod, find the adjusting screw on each drum and while rotating the wheel FORWARD tighten the screw up until you can just about turn the wheel. Then back of 20 clicks. Do the same on all 4 wheels. You now have equally balanced drums. Now adjust the cables so they feel equal on the balance bars. Then take up the slack on the linkage rod, to do this pull the rod backwards and forwards and shorten until the metallic clunk at the hitch end just disappears.

 

To check it's all gone ok while rotating one wheel forward get a helper to raise the hand brake slightly until you feel it grabbing slightly then without the helper moving the handbrake check all wheels are about the same. It's unusual for them to be perfect but they should be somewhere near.

 

Jason