"Wiring fault on trailer"

[DougVelting]

Glad i came across this thread. We just had this happen to us twice over the last thousand miles. Bearings and brake pads was on the list for this winter, guess i will add checking those wires to list while im down there too. I must have spent the next 50 miles each time wondering what it could be.

[laverdur]

The thing that makes this problem hard to find it that it is intermittent and is most likely to occur when in motion and the wires are bouncing around inside the axle tubes. Over the many months I tried to find this problem, never once was it present when I was parked. For a brief moment I thought about using the old wires to pull new wires through the axle tubes and then decided against doing so because the new wires would chaff too. Good luck with yours DougVelting.

[Foldbak]

Originally Posted by laverdur

The thing that makes this problem hard to find it that it is intermittent and is most likely to occur when in motion and the wires are bouncing around inside the axle tubes. Over the many months I tried to find this problem, never once was it present when I was parked. For a brief moment I thought about using the old wires to pull new wires through the axle tubes and then decided against doing so because the new wires would chaff too. Good luck with yours DougVelting.

I was thinking the same thing. The obvious place to start is the brakes but dont rule out a chafed wire.

[DougVelting]

We are moving sites later today. hopefully next weekend i can take a look at the brake area and bearings and bang them out quickly so i can get the skirting done before it gets too cold up here in NJ.

I will most likely try and find some way to help ensure this is a one and done fix, be that running the wires a new way or something. I hate doin stuff twice