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10" Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assembly for 3.5K Axles - LH

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This Old Trailer: Changing Hydraulic Trailer Brake to Electric - Video
Dexter Trailer Brakes 23-468 Review - Video

Dexter Trailer Brakes - 23-468

Dexter 10" X 2-1/4" Left Hand Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assembly

Features:

3,500 lbs capacity per pair
Uses 10" hub/drums
Works with 4-bolt mounting flange with bolt holes 2-7/8" on center apart
Includes mounting bolts
Nuts and lock washers sold separately

Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brakes:

Eliminate brake adjustments
- Brakes automatically adjust to deliver optimum performance and braking power
Reduce stopping distances 50 percent more than other brakes
Save time and money
- Do not have to get brakes manually adjusted
Reduce tow vehicle brake wear
- Proper adjustment leads to better brake efficiency

Video of 10" Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assembly for 3.5K Axles - LH

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Video This Old Trailer Hydraulic to Electric Brakes

This Old Trailer: Changing Hydraulic Trailer Brake to Electric

Dexter Trailer Brakes 23-468 Review

Video Transcript for This Old Trailer: Changing Hydraulic Trailer Brake to Electric

Today on This Old Trailer we are going to replace hydraulic brakes with electric brakes. Basically it is going to be a matter of taking off the tires, removing the hubs, go ahead and removing the backing plates and drain the hydraulic lines of fluid, and then going ahead and bolting on the new brakes. We will start off, obviously, by taking the wheels off. OK, go ahead and remove the dust cover here. It is an E-Z Lube spindle so this has a tang washer that we need to bush back down so we can unlock the castle nut right here. Just push it back down. Now we should be able to take the hub right off. The next task is to go ahead and disconnect the hydraulic lines. We have that disconnected. Now we need to pull the clip out so we can release this part here. And that is just a little piece of metal right here that you can just pry out. Alright, now we can unbolt this at the back of the hydraulic backing plate. Alright, now we can unbolt the backing plate from the flange on the axle. Now we are down to our bare axle. We will clean it up a little bit and then reinstall the brakes. 1:24

Before we put on our brake, we are going to cover which way it goes. Now it says on here right side, which is also the passenger side. But if you do not have the sticker or it is messed up, this bow right here, think of it as an arrow that points to the front always. We will just go ahead and flip it over. Get the wire. So go ahead and put our wire holder. It just loops over and pushes into place. It keeps it out of the way so it does not get smashed in the plate there. And we will go ahead and wire these up in a little bit. We will just slide it on because it has existing studs. And the magnet also points to the bottom always. Before we actually bolt it down, you might want to take a test fit and make a sure you have enough room for the lock nut and washer when you put it together. If you do not have room for it, you can get by by using just the nut. But, it might be a good idea to go ahead and use some Loctite on there to help ensure that it stays on. And we are going to be using part number LT37643. Alright, now this Loctite material what it does is it basically locks the nut onto the bolt. And what happens is it stays in this pliable state right now but as soon as you run a nut down on to it this air squeezes out and it starts hardening up. It basically turns into like an inside lock nut. And you can also easily undo it with basic, common hand tools too. 2:35

We will just go ahead and install our brake assembly and we will go ahead and install the nuts. What is also nice about the Loctite is it makes it a little bit more easier to thread on. Once you get everything snugged down, torque them down about 1/8 of a turn. That should be just fine. Now, we have two wires coming out of the backing plate. Now, we are going to ground one of them and then, since it is a magnet, it does not care which one as long as one goes to secure ground. We are going to put a ring terminal on the end and put it about right here. That way, you have plenty of room for the wire to go up and down as the suspension goes up and down. We will go ahead and run this wire back up to the front at a later point. Let us go ahead and reinstall our original hub. We can reuse the original hub because it has a flat surface on the inside and that it where our magnet will ride against this. So all we have to do, really, is to inspect the seal. Make sure it is in good shape and, if there is any doubt whatsoever, go ahead and replace the seal. We will go ahead and clean this one up and inspect it and then we will replace it if necessary. At that point, we can go reinstall the hub. Push our hub back into place. Make sure your bearing is seated. Alright, we will go ahead and pop on a new tang washer. It is always a good idea to replace it, just like a cotter pin. Reinstall a castle nut and we will run this down until it stops. Kind of rock it back and forth a little bit. Spin the hub a little bit. Make sure everything is seated. And run it down until it stops and then back off to the next notch, whichever you can use one of the tabs on the tang washer for. And then just spin it back down. 4:29

And then we can reinstall the dust cap. Now we are going to be using a special tool for that. That is going to be part number 290-991. Get it started. Tap it into place to hold it. Put our tool over it and then just tap it into place. Alright, now we will go ahead and adjust our brakes. We are going to pop off one of the covers here so we can see the adjustment dial on the inside. We are going to use a brake adjusting tool, available at any auto parts store. And basically, what we are going to do is adjust it until we can lock it up and keep spinning the hub until you cannot do it by hand anymore. Once you cannot move it by hand anymore, go ahead and back it off about ten clicks. OK, one hub is complete. Now we will go ahead and do the same thing for three more. Alright, now with all of our hub assemblies installed and grounded, we will go ahead and run our power wire. We are going to use a 10 gage wire to run from the front to the back. We are going to follow the original line where the brake line used to go to make things easy. Now we ran our wire from the front and we are going to the back wheel right here. We are going to make our permanent connection to this one wire. And then from this main blue wire, we are going to make our jumpers to the rest of our hubs. We are just going to use a butt connector to make our first connection here. Now, our other wire is going to be a lot thinner gage obviously. So you want to make sure you tighten it up really tight and maybe fold it over to give it a little bit more grip on it that way too. And then crimp it down. Alright, now that is our first connection. Now we will make a jumper from this wire and go to the other side of the axle for the other brake assembly. Alright, we will make the same connection as we did before. Alright, now let us go back to our original wire and make our connection there. 6:22

And now we are going to make our connection here. Now there are a variety of connections you can make. You can use a wire nut, solder and, in this case, we are going to use a quick splice which is designed for this size wire, so we are good to go there. We have our back axle done. Let us go ahead and go to the front axle and repeat the same process. And we are going to make our jumper right across here. And we will use a quick splice for that too. Then we will go back on across. OK, make sure you have plenty of room. Now we are leaving this loose for now. We will go ahead and attach these to the floor for a permanent install once we get done routing the wires. And while we are at it, we will go ahead and tape up our connections. At this point now, we can go ahead and zip-tie our wires to put them wherever we want. Probably use some loom clamps and we should be good to go. Then all we have to do next is go ahead and put the 7-pole on the wire up front. So now we will just go ahead and get rid of our 4-pole. And we are going to add our 7-pole to it. We are going to take apart the 7-pole and run it through the inside out. Put in our four wires for our lights and our ground and then we will run our blue wire from our brakes. Then we are going to strip these and install ring terminals to make our connections to the 7-pole itself. Go ahead and hook up our wires to the 7-pole. Now it is not going to be color for color on a few of them but it will be, in this case, blue to blue because blue will be brakes on the 7-pole. We are going to hook up the right turn and that is going to be green on trailer wiring and on the 7-pole it is going to be brown. Now we are going to do our brown wire which is running lights and it will be green on our 7-pole. Yellow is going to be left turn on our wire harness and it is going to be red on the 7-pole. With our white wire with the ring terminal we will go ahead and attach it to the ground here. And we will just go ahead and put the loom back into place. Let us go ahead and put the wheels back on and then we will apply power and give it a shot and see what happens. Alright, we got it to spin. Let us go ahead and apply power, a full 12 volts, and see what we get. Want to hit it. One more time. Off. On. And there you have it for converting This Old Trailer from hydraulic brakes over to electric brakes.

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Testing Trailer Brakes that are Getting Weak on a 8-1/2 X 24 Foot Cargo Trailer
It sounds like the magnets are getting worn and are not supplying the enough force to the brake assembly when the brakes are applied. The first thing I would do is use a voltage tester and check the brake output wire on the trailer while someone uses the manual knob in the cab. If you are not getting full power, you will need to test the brake controller for proper function. If you are getting full power with the manual slide fully engaged, then you will need to remove the hub and check the
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Will Using Nev-R-Adjust Brake Assembly 23-468 Remedy Overheating Trailer Brake Assembly Issue
What could possibly be happening is the brake might be engaged all the time due to a mis wiring in your system. To test for this problem, have a helper hit your brake pedal in the cab while you use a circuit tester on the brake magnet power wire. If you are getting power to the magnet any time other than when the brake pedal is pressed, then the brake magnet wire may be connected to a constant power source and would need to be reconnected to the electric brake wire, which is usually blue. An
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Are Dexter Nev-R Adjust Brake Assemblies Adjusted Upon the Initial Installation
My contact at Dexter did confirm that the # 23-468 Nev-R-Adjust brake assemblies will adjust themselves as you drive after the initial installation, but we still recommend that you do adjust the shoes when you first install the assemblies, so that your brakes are working as well as they can be upon the first use. This would be especially helpful in allowing your brake controller to engage the trailer brakes as intended. To install them, you would just bolt on the assembly, connect the magnet
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Do Hub Drums Need to be Replaced to Install Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assembly 23-468
The Nev-R-Adjust brake assembly # 23-468 works with a standard 10 inch by 2-1/4 inch hub drum, so as long as your current hub drum fits the standard 10 by 2-1/4 inch size, you would have no problem switching it to the new brake assembly. I do know that Alko makes a 10 by 2-1/4 inch assembly, so your hub drum should be the standard size.
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Replacing Trailer Brake Assemblies with Self Adjusting Brakes
In order to recommend some brake assemblies, I would need to know the axle capacity (2000, 3500, or 6000 lb) and the drum diameter. It appears that you were looking at the 10 inch self adjusting brake assembly for 3500 lb axles. If you indeed have the 10 inch drum with the 3500 lb axle, this brake assembly should work great for you. You would need the Right Hand Assembly, part # 23-469 and the Left Hand Assembly, part # 23-468. You will need a left and right hand for each axle.
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Replacement Brake Assemblies for Older Trailer With Hayes 4 Bolt Mount Assemblies
Yes, the Dexters should work. 4 bolt mount, 10x2-1/4 inch brakes are interchangeable between Dexter and Hayes on 3,500 pound axles. As long as your brakes are 2-1/4 inch tall you could use either the regular or self-adjusting Dexter assemblies. The standard assemblies are part # 23-26 and part # 23-27, the Nev-R-Adjust are part # 23-468 and part # 23-469. It would be best to replace both brake assemblies at the same time. Like tires, you want each assembly to wear evenly with the other to
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Do Nev-R-Adjust Brakes Need any Manual Adjustment
The # 23-468 Nev-R-Adjust brake assemblies will adjust themselves as you drive after the initial installation. The front brakes will always bear a bit more of the braking work, because more of the trailer weight is normally on the most forward axle, but it should not be noticeable. We recommend that you do adjust the shoes when you first install the assemblies, so that your brakes are working as well as they can upon the first use. This would be especially helpful in allowing your brake controll
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Is the Dexter Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assembly a Compatible Replacement for the Manual Assembly
The Dexter Nev-R-Adjust Electric assembly, part # 23-468 is a compatible replacement for the Dexter Electric assembly, part # 23-26. They are essentially the same assembly, but the 23-468 is the Nev-R-Adjust version. Meaning once you install and adjust the assembly the first time, you will not have to adjust it again. Over time as the shoes wear, the Nev-R-Adjust assembly will tighten itself. The right hand version of the Nev-R-Adjust is part # 23-469. I attached a link to a video to the r
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Electric Drum Brake Recommendations for a 3,500 Pound Trailer Axle
The most cost effective solution to add brakes would be to use your existing hubs and drums and use new electric drum brake assemblies. We have several options in the electric drum brake for 3,500 pound axles category. First, we have basic 10 inch drum brakes, # 23-26 (left hand) and # 23-27 (right hand). I have included a video showing a basic brake installation below. We also carry the Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assembly, # 23-468 (left hand) and # 23-469 (right hand). The advantage of the
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Do Dexter 10 Inch Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assemblies Need To Be Adjusted After Being Installed
After installing the Dexter 10 Inch Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assemblies, part # 23-468, # 23-469, you will want to make an initial adjustment of the brakes and your brake controller. For safety, we usually suggest an initial adjustment to ensure the brakes are operating correctly, but if you do not make an initial adjustment the brakes will eventually adjust themselves as you use the brakes. After installing the brakes, you will want to use a brake adjustment tool to turn the adjustment ge
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Are the Self-Adjusting Parts of the Nev-R Adjust Trailer Brake Assemblies Adequately Lubricated
On the Nev-R Adjust brake assemblies, like # 23-468, that I have seen, they have always been adequately lubricated. In the event that you would like to use a different grease, I recommend first cleaning off all of the existing grease as some greases are not compatible. It will not take but a small portion to lubricate the small self-adjusting component. You could use all purpose white lithium grease like # L11350 for this purpose. Be careful not to get grease on other components in the brake ass
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Accessing the Adjusting Wheel For Initial Brake Adjustment of Nev-R-Adjust Brakes # 23-468
I went out into our warehouse and pulled a 10 inch Nev-R-Adjust Electric Brake Assembly, part # 23-468, and started messing with it to see what it would take to be able to adjust it. What ended up working for me was a very thin screwdriver with a flat head. I was able to catch the teeth of the gear by going in through the left hole and then angling the screwdriver slightly to the left and down to the point that the screwdriver catches the teeth of the gear. And then with a little bit of press
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Do Nev-R-Adjust Electric Trailer Brakes Need an Initial Adjustment When Installed on a Trailer
Normally, you would not want to mix different types of brakes on the same trailer because there can be performance issues. With Nev-R-Adjust brakes like # 23-468, you do not have to make any initial adjustments, but it will take longer for them to get set correctly. We usually recommend that you go ahead and make that one initial adjustment so they will be set up correctly for your system. After that, you should not have to adjust them anymore.
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Troubleshooting Brakes on Pop-Up Camper
For starters, I would recommend doing some troubleshooting. Use a multimeter like part # BTMT15 and test the leads feeding the brake assembly magnets. Have a helper activate the manual braking switch on the controller, while you probe the wire. You should be getting approximately 12-volts at the brake magnet. The Nev-R-Adjust brake assemblies are known to click, make sure that they are installed on the correct side of the trailer. The # 23-469 should be installed on the right (passenger) s
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Troubleshooting Brakes not Functioning after Adding Brakes on Tandem Axle Trailer
The first thing I would check would be the grounds of the brake assemblies on the side of the trailer that does not seem to be working properly. If the grounds are not making solid connections the brakes would not activate. You should also check for voltage at every brake assembly. You would do this by having a buddy activate the override function of your brake controller while you use a circuit tester like # 3808 to see if there is voltage on the circuit. As long as you used adequate gaug
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Availability of Electric Trailer Brake Assemblies for 1977 Show Me Horse Trailer with Kelsey Axles
Kelsey is related to Hayes/AL-KO. We do have assemblies that may possibly fit but you will need to measure the center to center distance between the 4 bolt pattern on the brake mounting flange. On our brake assemblies that may fit, # 23-105-09, and # 23-106-09, the mounting pattern for the 4 bolt holes is as follows: Center to center on the lowest 2 holes is 2-1/2 inches Center to center on the top 2 holes is 3-1/8 inches Center to center between top and bottom holes is 3-3/8 inches Thes
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Troubleshooting Brakes not Working with at a Trailer With Electric Over Hydraulic Braking
To properly operate the actuator # K71-651, the brake controller you are using needs to be compatible with electric over hydraulic braking systems. We offer the Tekonsha Prodigy P2, part # 90885 that would work great for you. If the brake controller is turned up to maximum gain, you should be getting 12 volts on the blue wire feeding the actuator (when the controller is activated). The black wire feeding the actuator should show a constant 12 volts. If you do not have a multimeter, we offer o
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Nev-R-Adjust Trailer Brakes are Not Locking Up After Re-packing Bearings
There are a couple of things that caught my eye in your question. First, you mentioned taking the trailer to have the bearings packed. It is possible that in the process, they may have got some grease on the shoes or another component of the brakes and it is causing poor brake performance. I am not sure why, if the brakes were fine, that the tech adjusted them. You can adjust Nev-R-Adjust brakes, sometimes it is necessary, but they will eventually adjust themselves unless they are worn. You
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Trailer Brakes Drag After Backing Trailer Down Hill for 1/2 a Mile with 2007 Chevy Silverado
The brakes probably became unadjusted after backing up for so long and down hill. What you will want to do is adjust the brakes properly. Start by turning the small adjustment wheel on the bottom and back of the brake assemblies with a thin flat tool. You will need to adjust the brakes to the point where they drag slightly but constantly when you turn the wheel. I have included a video, part of which shows our installer adjusting brakes. Since the braking happened for so long and down hill, t
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How to Identify Self-Adjusting Brake Assemblies
If your current brake assemblies are self-adjusting, once the hub/drum is removed you will be able to see the adjuster cable extending across the brake assembly as shown in the photo I have edited for you. If you find you do not have them, you can certainly replace your existing brake assemblies. You will need to initially adjust the brake assemblies, but after that they will be self adjusting. I have linked you to a video showing how to adjust brake assemblies, click the link and fast forwar
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