sknight603
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Somewhat lengthly story here.
When our Jayco 26L was new, we had an occassional warning from our Tekonsha P3 controller "Warning - Overload - No Brakes". This was intermittent and seemed to go away completely after the second trip.
Well, this year, it happened again, but got much more serious when towing from Ocean City, MD back to NH. The condition became permanent.
The Tekonsha manual states this only has 2 causes:
1. A short in the brake wiring
2. A bad controller
I pulled off the highway, since towing with no brakes is simply not an option with a camper weighing in around 6,000 lbs.
I disconnected all wiring (brake controller, camper and camper battery) then reconnected. Still no brakes.
I tried a few herky jerky slow stops to shake things up a little. Still no brakes.
I then followed every brake wire I could see (goes up in to the camper for a while). And low and behold I found a place where the axle mounting plate mounts to the trailer frame, and a brake cable was pinched between the plate and the frame. And pinched well. The plate is held to the frame with several 3/4 bolts.
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I had to cut the wire in front and in back of the pinch and splice it together with medical tape (yeesh). Bingo! Brakes are back. Making appointment with the dealer to get a proper splicing or rewiring job
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2005 F-150 King Ranch SuperCrew
2007 Jayco 26L
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fdwt994
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WOW. That could've been a disaster! Glad it worked out OK.
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longtrailer48
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YOU ARE TO BE COMMENDED! Great job! I love it when someone understands their vehicle enough to search out the problem as best they can and actually find it. What a great feeling it must have been to know things were working again and YOU fixed it! Right on! We all want to run with you!
-Jeff
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phemens
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Wow, I'm going out to check our 26L as soon as the rain clears. Thanks for the heads-up!
Jayco 2008 26L behind a 2005 'Burb out of the Great White North, eh!
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bob975
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GREAT JOB! Glad every thing work out so you can fix it and get you and your family home safe. Heading to O.C.MD. in to weeks hope all goes good for me.
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jmcnab
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Darn.. I'm having the same problem and I got under there for 1/2 an hour checking out the wiring and couldn't find anything wrong.
frustrating...I wish I could find a problem like yours.
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sknight603
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jmcnab wrote:Darn.. I'm having the same problem and I got under there for 1/2 an hour checking out the wiring and couldn't find anything wrong.
frustrating...I wish I could find a problem like yours.
My immediate advice is to have someone else hook up and see if their brake controller shows the same overload. You can quickly eliminate your truck and brake controller that way.
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edited 05/20/08 07:47am by sknight603 *
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