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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
I believe they might.
You can make the change over to electric brakes but I believe unless you go to electric over hydraulic, you would need to replace your whole brake system with drums. Then the brakes are controlled by the brake actuator on your truck and you can adjust the amount of braking the trailer does through the actuator.
For electric over hydraulic, you would need to install an actuator on the trailer that when you press the brake it sends a signal to an actuator that controls the trailer brakes via hydraulic pressure. Not sure where you would mount it, but this would be the ideal system if your trailer would come with hydraulic surge brakes. you'd keep them on, and plumb the trailer lines to the actuator, which is then hooked to your brake system on the truck.
Steve |
