2004 4x4 no trailer brakes with equlizer hitch
10-10-2009, 02:50 PM
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2004 4x4 no trailer brakes with equlizer hitch
I have a friend that was telling me that if he tows his camper and horse trailer with the equlizer hitch he has little or no trailer brakes but with a standard hitch he has trailer brakes. Any one have this problem. He said it has the factory brake controller? I have not seen it did they come with factory controllers?
10-11-2009, 05:46 AM
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I agree with that. Once you hook up you should have a ground but with my trailer, for some reason, I have a terrible ground. I even see sparks when I drop the trailer down on the ball. I added another ground to the trailer frame and connect it to a ground I made under my hitch and everything works great now.
10-11-2009, 01:00 PM
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I went thru heck with my 04. Couldn't get power back to the turn signals......turned out to be a bad fuse box.....replaced that and all my troubles went away.........sure was frustrating for a while.
10-11-2009, 01:25 PM
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I have no idea what his problem may be but there were no factory trailer break controlers on any year Dodge. Ford is the only one who has ever made it an option to have a factory installed trailer break controler and that has only been in hte last couple years. You may wana check and see if he has a break controler in the truck at all. If so it may have been installed buy the dealer but not the factory.
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10-11-2009, 01:30 PM
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I have no idea what his problem may be but there were no factory trailer break controlers on any year Dodge. Ford is the only one who has ever made it an option to have a factory installed trailer break controler and that has only been in hte last couple years. You may wana check and see if he has a break controler in the truck at all. If so it may have been installed buy the dealer but not the factory.
10-16-2009, 08:32 PM
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I talked to him some more it has a after market controller installed by a trailer -rv company. He is using the same receiver and with out bars the trailer brakes work with bars they do not .I am going to have to look at it to see what is going on.
10-19-2009, 12:42 PM
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The Equalizer hitch should have absolutely nothing to do with the brakes working or not. Maybe he feels them more without the bars hooked up but even that's a stretch.
10-21-2009, 02:45 PM
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10-21-2009, 02:57 PM
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Yeah. No kidding. I didn't even think of that. If he gets those WDH chains really tight then the trailer is not gonna surge. That's for sure!
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