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Cobra Trailer brakes
Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs
& grease seals. |
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go to www.cobratrailer.de They do have an english page and will mail stuff
quickly. I got parts in about a week williscomb |
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Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs & grease seals. We didn't drive with the hand brake on, did we? :) JJ Sinclair |
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J.J.
Let me put it this way, I definetly didn't leave the house with the hand brake on. Where I have to hook up at the house I must pull the trailer about 5' to my truck. So I know it rolled free. At some point on the freeway (about 15 miles from home) traffic slowed to about 10 mph and some guy pulled up next and gave me the finger point at the trailer and some other gestures. There was somke comming from the right wheel and tire, the brake drums were so hot it melted my plastic hub caps. The brake handle was in the up position at this time. I'm very consious about the brake handle when hooking up and in transit, I'm assuming that upon leaving my driveway and making a u-turn down the street it might have pulled the break away cable and set the hand brake and pulling up in front of the house I should have checked it again. I (thanks to the guy that I oue at least a 12 pack of beer or more) caught the problem before it destroyed the bearings, races and spindles. The tire was hotter than hell and if I had of had a tire catch on fire I'd have been calling Costello on Monday (got a fire extingusher now) (JJ Sinclair) wrote in message ... Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs & grease seals. We didn't drive with the hand brake on, did we? :) JJ Sinclair |
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J.J. Let me put it this way, I definetly didn't leave the house with the hand brake on Didn't mean to make light of a real potential problem, but I did recognize the list of parts that needed replacing. I once had a Komet hand brake that would pop on if I looked side-ways at it. A little bump and the gas strut would go over-center and, well you know the rest. I would tie it down just to prevent its self-initiated action. JJ Sinclair |
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One dry chem extinguisher won't be enough to put out a tire fire. By
the time the tire catches fire, everything is so hot it just reignites. You may want to carry a product called Cold Fire for A B and D fires. It has much greater cooling properties than dry chem. Check it out at: http://www.firefreeze.com/site/page1.cfm Stay cool, Steve (R Barry) wrote in message . com... snip... The tire was hotter than hell and if I had of had a tire catch on fire I'd have been calling Costello on Monday (got a fire extingusher now) ....snip |
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Are you sure the ball races and bearings are okay?
We had this happen to a club trailer a couple of years ago (not a Cobra but the same Alko hub that Cobra uses). The wheels didn't quite fall off but they didn't half graunch and on closer inspection the ball races were shot and some of the balls were square, all the grease having boiled/burnt off. The brake shoes also needed replacing. At 14:48 13 July 2004, R Barry wrote: J.J. Let me put it this way, I definetly didn't leave the house with the hand brake on. Where I have to hook up at the house I must pull the trailer about 5' to my truck. So I know it rolled free. At some point on the freeway (about 15 miles from home) traffic slowed to about 10 mph and some guy pulled up next and gave me the finger point at the trailer and some other gestures. There was somke comming from the right wheel and tire, the brake drums were so hot it melted my plastic hub caps. The brake handle was in the up position at this time. I'm very consious about the brake handle when hooking up and in transit, I'm assuming that upon leaving my driveway and making a u-turn down the street it might have pulled the break away cable and set the hand brake and pulling up in front of the house I should have checked it again. I (thanks to the guy that I oue at least a 12 pack of beer or more) caught the problem before it destroyed the bearings, races and spindles. The tire was hotter than hell and if I had of had a tire catch on fire I'd have been calling Costello on Monday (got a fire extingusher now) (JJ Sinclair) wrote in message news:... Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs & grease seals. We didn't drive with the hand brake on, did we? :) JJ Sinclair |
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J.J.
I know you were trying to make light of the situation and I didn't take the comment ofensivly. I found a brake shop in Riverside that will turn the drums reline the shoes, they have the seals in metric. They havn't located a perfect match for the return springs yet, close but not exact. The bearings were in good shape not blued or chipped and the same with the races. I'll look closer tomorrow. In the meantime I've been watching awsome Q's and lenticular clouds over the Big Bear and San Gabriels and can't get the trailer to roll!! Russ |
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