When I yanked the axles for the "flip", I had to disconnect the wires that go into the brake drums from the trailer. The wires come from the trailer, then split-- one set of wires goes into the left side wheel and the other set goes across the axle and into the right side wheel. Ditto for the rear axle. The wires from the trailer and the wires that go across the axle are colored black and white, but just a few inches before the wheel, the wires are butt connected into red wires that go directly into the brake drum. I cannot see any distinguishing marks on these red wires do tell one from the other. So when I hooked them up this afternoon, I assumed that because the wires into the brakes are not color-coded (both wires into the drum are red) that it didn't matter where the black and the white wire go-- so I hooked the black wire to one red wire and the white wire to the other red wire, did the same for all four wheels. Did I do this right?
The trailer is a 1981 Layton 19', if that matters.
Yes, you did it right. It really doesn't matter which is which, just as long as one wire per wheel goes to ground and the other goes to the wire from the brake controller.
You didn't actually turn the axles over right? You are just moving the springs to the top or bottom whatever may be? Most axles have a bend in them to give them caster and when weight is applied it straightens them out.
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Thanks for the info, I'm glad its right. I really didn't wanna crawl back under there and re-do it.
Pull-Tab, no, I didn't just flip the axles over, I did the whole job--- remove axles, remove springs, weld on new spring pads, yada yada yada. They call this job an "axle flip", even though you aren't really flipping anything.
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