Ooopsie...the Equal-i-Zer cut several wires in the pigtail and caused the brakes to kick on and start smoking. Had no choice but to unplug it and drive 200 miles without brakes or lights. The Tundra can stop 10,000lbs (9500 is what the trailer weighs) no problems, even on hills.
Hey. . . it happens. Yes, the truck has very effective brakes. Also, should you in the future have no trailer brakes, you can use engine braking very much to your advantage, just switch to sequential shift, and downshift to keep your revs up to 4,000 territory.
Nice trailer, too BTW!
FYI if your pigtail doesn't arrive, or if you have something like this again, it's a pretty easy temporary fix to just peel back the insulation and connect same color wires to each other and wrap each one individually with electrical tape. Doing so will help keep you seen and stopping better
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Hey. . . it happens. Yes, the truck has very effective brakes. Also, should you in the future have no trailer brakes, you can use engine braking very much to your advantage, just switch to sequential shift, and downshift to keep your revs up to 4,000 territory.
Nice trailer, too BTW!
FYI if your pigtail doesn't arrive, or if you have something like this again, it's a pretty easy temporary fix to just peel back the insulation and connect same color wires to each other and wrap each one individually with electrical tape. Doing so will help keep you seen and stopping better
I just made sure it was in tow/haul mode and had no problems stopping. Just kept extra distance on the freeways and went a bit slower in traffic.
I have temporarily fixed the pigtail with electrical tape but I didn't have any in the camper when I was traveling. Even stopped at one RV store and they didn't have a pigtail so I just got back on the road and kept traveling. Hopefully the new will get here in time that I don't have to test it. I had to bend the cable in half to get all the wires to connect.
Here's my rig. Went to Old Orchard Beach, Me. last weekend. The '06 DC tows better than the '00 AC did. The '06 has air helper springs and the '00 did not. Also, the '06 used less fuel with the 5 speed trans rather than the 4 speed in the '00.
Last edited by 73mach1429; 06-30-2009 at 04:44 PM.
Ooopsie...the Equal-i-Zer cut several wires in the pigtail and caused the brakes to kick on and start smoking. Had no choice but to unplug it and drive 200 miles without brakes or lights. The Tundra can stop 10,000lbs (9500 is what the trailer weighs) no problems, even on hills.
Got a new Pigtail coming to the campground from etrailer.com, should be here by Friday.
If your trailer has a removable foot/wheel... Use the pin out of it and put it in your coupler after hitching up then put your pigtail in the middle before you swing the "U" shaped holder over. Keeps your pigtail right above the coupler all the time so it will never fall off to the side and get pinched. Below is a picture to the kind of pin that is in my campers foot.
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