Brakes

[KazooTom]

I have a 1989 Sear ray 18' I/O 4.3 on a ez loader single axle trailer. Boat and trailer are weighting in around 3000 lbs. I tow this with a Jeep Cherokee and the brakes on the Jeep are marginal on stopping power. I am using the cermic pads and rear shoes are almost new. Is it possable to add elecric brake package to this trailer I already have a brake controller in the Jeep.
Thanks for you help inadvance.
Tom

 

[Bondo]

Re: Brakes

I have a 1989 Sear ray 18' I/O 4.3 on a ez loader single axle trailer. Boat and trailer are weighting in around 3000 lbs. I tow this with a Jeep Cherokee and the brakes on the Jeep are marginal on stopping power. I am using the cermic pads and rear shoes are almost new. Is it possable to add elecric brake package to this trailer I already have a brake controller in the Jeep.
Thanks for you help inadvance.
Tom

Ayuh,.... IF the axle has the flanges for mountin' the brake backin' plates,.... Sure....

I'd go with hyd. surge, insteada electric....

 

[emoney]

Re: Brakes

+1 on the "Hydraulic surge brakes". Nothing to fail electronically. I have them on mine, which weighs in around 3200lbs-ish, and I pull it with a Kia Sorento. Once I got used to the surge bump, I hardly know it's there.

Might be just as cheap (or less) to sell/trade your trailer for what you need.

 

[tpenfield]

Re: Brakes

3000 lb trailer single axle . . . surge brakes are a slam-dunk. no need to get electrically involved.

 

[04fxdwgi]

Re: Brakes

Just a suggestion:

If your axles have the flanges on them and you are going to add hydraulic surge brakes, then add the disc brakes instead of the drums. The discs are far superior to the drums in stopping power and don't cost all that much more when starting from scratch. The Kodiac units are awsome.

My brakes worked, but I just converted my drums (decided on a 100% rebuild of 20 year old brakes) to disc and it's like night and day. I must admit though, I went from drum on one axle to discs on both axles, due to my trailer being a 7,000 lb dual axle rig, but result far exceeded my expectations. I can feel the trailer slowing my truck when I initially hit the brakes, before all equalizes. You should have similar results on the 3000 trailer w/ a Jeep.

 

[KD4UPL]

Re: Brakes

I would hope you could add brakes to that trailer. As far as I know in most, if not all states, it's required on a 3,000 pound load like that.
I'll second the vote for surge brakes. They don't work as well as electric but you don't want to be dunking electric brakes in the water all the time.