Cobra surge brakes on mountain grades.

I can confirm that if you accelerate all the way down the hill, the surge
brakes won't get hot at all.

bumper

"Gary Emerson" wrote in message
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I can confirm that the cobra surge brake on our trailer was engaged during
a long steep decent. This was on the road from cloudcroft down to
alamagordo. Didn't cause any problem, but the brakes were definitely hot
at the bottom.

bumper wrote:
I can confirm that if you accelerate all the way down the hill, the surge
brakes won't get hot at all.

Yep, Vr for a F150 and trailer is gonna be fast enough to really impress
the white sands folks too.

" wrote in
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I can confirm that the cobra surge brake on our trailer was engaged
during a long steep decent. This was on the road from cloudcroft down
to alamagordo. Didn't cause any problem, but the brakes were definitely
hot at the bottom.






As a kid I remember watching the logging trucks coming down the mountain
from Cloudcroft to Alamogordo and being amazed that they had massive
water-cooled brakes.



Larry