FYI...flipped trailer axle...problem solved!...

(05elitevc4) · (05elitevc4) **Join Date: Jan 2008** 07-21-2008, 9:08 AM

A while ago I posted this problem. And while the right fix is the solenoid working to disenguage the brakes..that seems to be a crap shoot with this trailer even though the dealer checked it and says it works. So I have resorted back to using the manual pin in the slide to back up. Well my brakes are pretty tight and 3/8" that it still slides back puts enough pressure on brakes still with an empty trailer to flip that damn axle over...ARgh!!! Well I owe it to my little bro who found the perfect piece. We used the back of a lock from a 95 camero T-top and it fits within a 1/16". Not the proper way...but you cant argue with results. Some wire checking is in my future but at least now we can wedge that in there and completly disenguage the brakes. Made for a much nicer saturday.

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 07-21-2008, 9:48 AM

Did you try flipping the trailer plug upside down and turning on your headlights when you want to back up??

I am assuming you have a 5 pin straight plug from the trailer and a 4 pin straight plug on your tow vehicle.

(05elitevc4) · (05elitevc4) **Join Date: Jan 2008** 07-21-2008, 10:38 AM

I have tried it all. My plug from the truck works. I have tested it multiple times. Put it in reverse and the fifth wire that goes to the brake solenoid lights up...in my mind I shouldnt have to do anything else as far as getting power to the solenoid..maybe I am wrong..

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 07-21-2008, 10:43 AM

Sounds like the solenoid is shot to me. It should lock out. Congrats on the ghetto fix. I flip mine because I am too lazy to get an adapter plug.

(05elitevc4) · (05elitevc4) **Join Date: Jan 2008** 07-21-2008, 4:27 PM

I have also been thinking about making shackles that are slighly longer so that it will be harder to flip...it will make the trailer sit lower (not stoked about that) but I think that would make it not possible to flip. Im sure I will fix it properly but I think this would work too.

(sound_illusions)

Hey Sean take your tester and test the blue wire going into the Selenoid. I have seen them et pinched and cut due to folding tongues on the front of trailers. The other day I came across a trailer that had just come from dealer and to our shop and the blue wire was never hooked up from the factory.