Friday, 10 May 2013

Tara and Big Mo. Marriage made in Heaven!!

We have had an issue with the brakes on the GMC.  The factory installed brakes only work on electric brakes.  Well don't you know, Tara has electric over hydraulic brakes.  The two refused to talk to each other.  Tom has been around the block trying to find someone who would disconnect the factory installed controller and install an aftermarket product.  Finally after talking to numerous GMC dealers and trailer dealers he found Open Road GMC in Newmarket that would do the job.   Job finished and we are ready to roll.

Wednesday morning we headed up to the place where our trailer has been stored all winter and hooked her up.  The controller still is not working.  You can imagine we were not very happy.

We spent 5 very long hours standing, sitting and walking around the trailer storage lot waiting for them to try to get it working.  They were on the phone to the manufacture of the brake controller, of the trailer and who knows who else.  No one could figure it out.  Finally by 5 pm they said the brakes work but the controller will not recognize that there is a trailer attached.  We figured to hell with it, we are out of here.  As long as the brakes work we are okay.

So for the very first time Tara and Big Mo have married up and we headed down the road.


We drove down to Carlisle to Tom's cousin Rodger's.  Rodger is going to give us some trailer back up lessons next week.   We plan on camping with them on the long weekend so we will leave Tara at their place until then.  Rodger and Terry  put on a lovely dinner for us before we headed back home.  Thanks guys.

Until next time - safe travels.

4 comments:

  1. If your trailer brakes are disc brakes there is a different type of controller required. All the vehicle manufactures only have controllers meant for the standard trailer drum brakes. Be Safe and Enjoy!

    It's about time.

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  2. nice to have the rig together! must look mighty fine driving down the road!!

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  3. Glad the brakes are finally working but hope that controller gets fixed too. Stop by in your travels if you can. Travel safe! The rig looks awesome!

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  4. Glad the brakes are finally working but hope that controller gets fixed too. Stop by in your travels if you can. Travel safe! The rig looks awesome!

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