Cobra Trailer brakes

The bearings and seals are off-the-shelf parts that a good bearing or
auto parts supplier should be able to get for you. I carry a spare set
in the front of my trailer just in case. From experience, it can be
difficult to find them on Sunday evening...in a small town...in
eastern Tennessee.

The bearing numbers are stamped on the races. Not sure about the
seals; I might have had to take one in for the supplier to match up.

I had something similar occur on a Komet trailer years ago. The
bracket welded to the front of the tongue (just before it exits the
front of the trailer) broke, allowing the trailer to settle onto the
brake actuating rod. The bolts at the rear of the tongue kept
everything connected but it jammed the surge brake on.

A bearded, southern good ole' boy pulled up beside us on the freeway
in North Carolina in a tricked out van and pointed back at the
trailer, which had smoke pouring from the hubs. He helped me lash a
chain around the tongue and front crossmember which allowed me to limp
into a nearby town for a quick repair.

Lesson learned: Surprisingly, he knew it was a glider trailer. As he
ferried me to the local Kmart to buy some chain, I was giving him the
"how gliders fly without an engine, kindergarten version" speech when
he allowed that he had just had a ride in a glider, a Grobee (sic).

"It was last week; I've got some pictures here." At which point he
pulled out a packet of prints with him climbing into and out of a Twin
Grob at a nearby commercial operation!

He refused any compensation for ferrying me around and being late for
dinner, but I signed him up as an SSA member when I got home.

Chip Bearden

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