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?

 

Sounds like the horse trailer has surge brakes, not electric. I had that problem with my boat trailer with hydraulic surge brakes.

 

he needs to check his ground

 

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.

 

you should be able to have all lights and brakes working without having ball hitched to truck,ground is thru elec. plug connector.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Just an FYI. My 08 GMC has a factory trailer break controller and the '10 Dodges will have them. You are right, there weren't factory brake controllers in 04.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I second this.

 

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!
I think you got it Danavilla