Boy did I ever stir up a mess with the spouse.
How many of you have ever experienced jerking on brake apply on rough roads?
I know there are a list of things that can cause or contribute to this. I am discounting broken wires, faulty brakes, loose trailer suspension. All of these have been checked and eliminated.
Here is what I know: There are times when you apply brakes and the terrain and the grab of the brakes can cause you to overapply brakes. This is often followed by a relaxing either intentional or unintentional and then you apply again and the cycle repeats and it sets up a secondary action by trailer frame flex, hitch flex, etc, etc and you can get a pretty severe on-off cycle going. Severe enough to dump stuff out of cabinets and so forth.
Do any of you ever experience what I think I have described well with your rigs?
My issue is my spouse hauls the same trailer with the same horses on the same roads and will on occasion get this cyclic brake jerk thing to occur. I have coached her to manually apply with controller when it happens and it does stop it. I suggested changes to seat and foot placement and that didn't go well......
Any suggestions or anyone who has dealt with this and found a fix?
No loose hitches. Gooseneck trailers with 2 5/16 ball couplers. No turnover, hideaway, or worn balls. No loose suspension or cracks in frames on trailers. IT does happen most often on one of the two 36 foot floor aluminum horse trailers. One is a 6 horse with dressing and mid-tack storage and the other is 36 foot floor 4 horse with 15 foot living quarters and mid tack storage.
It does happen more with the F450 that has Maxbrake controller. The F350 has the ITBC option.
My thoughts are the ITBC system likely has some dampening built into the circuitry or software.
How many of you have ever experienced jerking on brake apply on rough roads?
I know there are a list of things that can cause or contribute to this. I am discounting broken wires, faulty brakes, loose trailer suspension. All of these have been checked and eliminated.
Here is what I know: There are times when you apply brakes and the terrain and the grab of the brakes can cause you to overapply brakes. This is often followed by a relaxing either intentional or unintentional and then you apply again and the cycle repeats and it sets up a secondary action by trailer frame flex, hitch flex, etc, etc and you can get a pretty severe on-off cycle going. Severe enough to dump stuff out of cabinets and so forth.
Do any of you ever experience what I think I have described well with your rigs?
My issue is my spouse hauls the same trailer with the same horses on the same roads and will on occasion get this cyclic brake jerk thing to occur. I have coached her to manually apply with controller when it happens and it does stop it. I suggested changes to seat and foot placement and that didn't go well......
Any suggestions or anyone who has dealt with this and found a fix?
No loose hitches. Gooseneck trailers with 2 5/16 ball couplers. No turnover, hideaway, or worn balls. No loose suspension or cracks in frames on trailers. IT does happen most often on one of the two 36 foot floor aluminum horse trailers. One is a 6 horse with dressing and mid-tack storage and the other is 36 foot floor 4 horse with 15 foot living quarters and mid tack storage.
It does happen more with the F450 that has Maxbrake controller. The F350 has the ITBC option.
My thoughts are the ITBC system likely has some dampening built into the circuitry or software.