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Dexter 10" x 2-1/4" Left Hand Electric Brake Assembly
Video of 10" Electric Brake Assembly - Left Hand
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Today we are going to show you how to install brakes on a trailer that does not have existing brakes. It is actually pretty easy to do it is just very time consuming. There are a few things you want to look out for before you start. One of those things is look being the existing hub you have. Make sure you have a flange like this on the axle. It is this 4 bolt flange on here if you have that on your axle your pretty much home free. You will see it on 3,500 pound axles like we have here. You also see it on 2,000 pound axles. On a 3,500 pound one you would probably use a 10 inch drum and on a lighter 2000 pounds, you would use a 7 inch size. Also you notice we have the hub missing. We have to take that off because the hub and drum assembly it is all in one piece. You have to take off the old hub get rid of it and start off fresh.
For this install we are going to install the backing plate. Basically it slides on like so then you just bolt it onto 4 places. A couple things you might want to take note of is there is a left and right side to it also an up and down. The magnet always stays pointed to the ground. If you did not have a sticker like this one does another way to tell is look for this bow here. The actuating arm or bow always points to the front of the trailer so thats a good reference point for you. At this point lets start bolting on our hubs. Works down in a criss cross pattern makes sure you have them evenly tightened. Go ahead and do the same thing for the other side. One thing to note while you are adding the hubs to a trailer. Take a look at the spindle. Take this spindle for example it is whats called an EZ Lube spindle it has a Zerk fitting on the end. What happens is grease travels through the middle of the spindle and comes out this hole here. If you have that it is great, but the thing is when you get a new hub you want to make sure what kind of seal it comes with. Most of the hubs will come with a regular single lip seal. You can see the just one lip right here. It has been around for ages and works great. However if you use this with an EZ Lube Spindle what happens is grease gets pulled in and applies pressure to this. So what you want to do is get whats called a double lip seal. As you can see here it has a lip on the inside edge here along with the lip on the outside too. This is double protection that keeps grease in and has a little bit extra pressure. You can also tell it is a double lip seal because it has a spring. Every double lip seal out there has a spring in it. So you have an EZ Lube Spindle or double check. Just to be on the safe side go ahead and order a double lip seal. You can see where our hub is sealed right on the end. You could call it the bearing or seal surface. This is where you are inside bearing rides right here. As you can see here there is the hole that the grease comes out between this seal and this bearing.
Once put together this whole area is going to fill up with grease. Of course it can not come from over top because your race is here. What happens is the grease comes up and fills up here first. Then comes through your rollers and actually through the middle of this cavity here. Then the whole thing gets packed full of grease. Once that is packed full of grease it will travel through the rollers of the outside bearing and come through here and out by the nut. Once the grease is full up to the the nut you know it is fully packed and ready to go. It is completely waterproof at the same time actually. At this point we can go ahead and slip on our hubs. We have our spindle lightly greased and our bearings are already packed so we will go ahead and put them together. Some spindles like this one come with a tang washer. If yours is just the normal spindle then you just have a counter pin that goes through. In this case we have the EZ Lube spindle so we will go ahead and assemble it. It is only one extra step involved. Make sure you take out any play. A little bit is fine just a hair is all you need. Then flip this edge into place like so. Get it to stop then bring it back one notch. If you had a regular spindle we would be finished by now but since we have the EZ Lube spindle we will go ahead and use that feature fully pack the bearings and bring out the grease to both bearings. Installing our hub is complete now. The next step is to adjust the brakes. From here what we need to do is go ahead and adjust our brakes. Basically what we are going to do is tighten up the drum until it stops turning. Then back off 10 clicks then you should have a very fine light drag. What we need to do now is go ahead and start running the wires. We are going to follow the factory harness back onto the driver side wheel. Then we are going to follow the axle on over to the passenger side wheel. Once you are by the axle here go ahead and leave a little loop for working room. Then make sure it is tied to your passenger side wheel. We will go ahead and at this point zip tie the wire to the axle. At this point you have your wire set across the axle the way you want it so we will go ahead and pull the slack up to the front of the trailer. We will go ahead and make our connection to the wires here. Make sure you note that one wire goes to ground and the other wire goes to positive. Again it does not matter the magnet does not care. We will go ahead and split our wire here. To make our connections there are a variety of different ways to do it. You can use the quick splice connectors like we are going to use here. You can also use butt connectors also it is more a personal preference. For clarity or ease of use we are going to use the quick splices here. From here you can tape them up or apply seal to them as you see fit. Then once these are sealed up you can zip tie them to the axle and keep them out of the way so they do not get smashed.
We will move over to our driver side now and what we are going to do is install our ground on the inside of the frame here. You can put it where ever you want but we are going to put it back here to make it a little nicer. Then run our ground wire all the way back up to the front. So we will just go ahead and open up the sheath again. We will then split our wire here and add 2 ring terminals there. Now what we did was run our wire and mix it in with the others up front making it look nice and neat. We are going to put our 7 pole connector on next. First you slide on the cover then you strip these wires and add ring terminals to them so the connector fits inside. It is time to connect to 7 pole connector. What you want to do is match up the colors obviously but there are a few different codes. For instance sometimes red is left turn but on the trailer it is actually yellow. The only common ones is white is ground wire and blue will be used as our black wire. Which the black wire is actually used on here as the 12 volt power lead. We will start off with the ones that match up and that would be the white. Then we will do the brake wire and on the trailer it is black but on the 7 pole it will be blue. Left turn on our trailer is yellow but the left turn on our 7 pole is red. We have green here which is running light and on the trailer it is brown. Finally green is right turn on our trailer and that is brown on our 7 pole. Next we put our connector back in with the little screw. We fix our loom and tighten the last screw. With that our installation is complete all we have to do is test it.
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Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (49 Customer Reviews)
by: Steve VR08/08/2011
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First off, Etrailer is awesome. I ordered two pairs of loaded plates and hubs on Sunday night and they were on my door step by Wednesday!.. Three issues with the plates. 1. On one plate, the two wires from the magnet were about cut in two on the back side of the plate right as they come out of the plastic retainer. Must be getting pinched somehow in shipping. 2. Both left plates had lubriplate grease where the brake pads rub the backing plate and at all pivot points. Neither of the right side ones did, requiring disassembly of the new plates to grease the spots that should have been. (Somebody had a bad day on the assembly line!). 3. Product information led me to believe that new backing plate nuts would be included. They were not, but new lug nuts were included with the wheel bearing kits. Only thing that I would suggest to Etrailer would be to carry replacement lock tabs for the bearings. Other than that, a couple of hours and brand new brakes & hubs all around. They are working great! Thanks Etrailer for the great products, prices & shipping! Steve21416
by: Paul G.10/20/2011
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great product......speedy delivery....and best of all stamped "Made in USA "(a rare commodity these days)....A strong reason influencing my purchase. Only wish I could have said the same for the replacement bearings and races I also purchased from your company. (Keep America working-buy USA) Excellent customer service!25853
by: Anonymous10/26/2011
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Direct factory part replacement. Complete backing plate swap is the easiest. Spray nuts with penetrating oil. Remove four old nuts on the back and install the new plate and re-use the nuts and your all set. Solder the circuits back together and your done.26129
by: Joel F.08/27/2011
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Great USA Quality, easy as pie to install. eTrailer is the best!!! 22935
by: BOB K08/24/2011
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Fast shipping !!! All parts were what I needed, will use your services again. Thanks22679
by: R. L. Thompson08/24/2011
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Product arrived intact and right on time. The items were well packed and the included instructions coupled inst with the inst. vidieos on the web site should make this a no brainer. I shopped the net and local supply.co. and your price was competitive and when you throw in free shipping no contest. This electric brake setup will be installed on a 2 axle utility trailer to bring it in to compiance with state law. A freindly state inspecter suggested strongley that I do that. 22626
by: David T08/10/2011
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Very fast shipping great to do business with21540
by: spenc07/01/2011
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the 'loaded' backing plate makes fixing brake, shoe or magnet issues a breeze. 18382
by: larry johnson06/30/2011
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great product ,low cost and most important ,(MADE IN AMERICA)18260
by: Jeff R.06/26/2011
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Fit perfect, easy to install and adjust. Can't wait to use them. Thanks17980
by: Skip T.06/22/2011
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See my review of the RH side brake assembly. Great value and so easy to change a caveman could do it... as long as he has some penetrating oil to get the old retaining nuts off.17705
by: Mel06/16/2011
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Very happy with the quick response and the status updates regarding the purchase. Received the products as ordered and they arrived a day early. Have been very happy with price, quality and efficiency of etrailer operations. 17110
by: John D.06/10/2011
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Easy installation. Except for the way you run the wires through the backing plate. One wire was cut in half and the other one was bare wire. Also one of the adjusters fell out during shipping. It took a little extra time to repair the wire since there is not much room. A little aggravating but not insurmountable. Possibly during shipping the wires get squeezed pretty hard at the backing plate. You might want to address this problem..16712
by: brian f06/10/2011
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fast shipping, product is price excellent,and product is made in the usa16651
by: Clyde B.05/20/2011
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The precise part I needed, great service, Thanks14914
by: Doug S.05/16/2011
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The 10" Electric Brake Assemblies were quite easy to install (on my dual axle trailer which had no brake system) after watching eTrailer's video, (http://www.etrailer.com/tv-Install-Electric-Brakes-Trailer.aspx). I ordered the 4 brake assemblies on a Sunday night and had them at my door the following Tuesday when I got home from work. And this was without a shipping upgrade (WOW!). 14425
by: Doug04/30/2011
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Quick & easy install. All you need to get are the 4 nuts and lokwashers to mount.12615
by: Kenneth Webb04/07/2011
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On the left hand asm. the bottom left press fit stud was not secure. I had to put a spot of weld there to keep stud from turning when tigtening the nut.11272
by: Fred B02/16/2011
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It is a great product as the come for the left side and the right side. This product saves a lot of time 7286
by: Andy Casperson02/07/2011
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Great product at an awsome price. They were in stock and showed up to my house 3 days later. Everything was as found and ordered. Thank you......6775
by: GARY SILVIS01/28/2011
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EXCELLENT FAST DELIVERY. DEFINITELY WILL USE YOUR COMPANY AGAIN!6311
by: Andrew01/25/2012
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Great deal! Only cost a few dollars more to replace the backing plate and components than to purchase new shoes. If you're debating whether to replace just the shoes, or the whole backing plate I'd recommend you replace the whole backing plate. It's far easier (4 nuts vs 3 springs and more), and ensures that everything is in good working order. One caveaut, however: it's not easy to replace backing plates when the nuts are severely rusted (in my case, it took cutting most of them off). FYI, I'm using these with drums marked "8-249-07" NOTE: You'll need (4) 7/16-20 nuts if you're not planning on using the originals. Bolts are included.30303
by: David Olvera01/16/2012
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Thank you for the fast service and delivery. I will definitely be ordering from you again. Your website is very user friendly. Again thanks for your great customer service.29804
by: Alex G.01/12/2012
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Made USA who can beat this 29583
by: Nick P.01/11/2012
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Excellent product. States that bolts are included but forgets to tell you that nuts are not. Be sure to order 4 nuts for each backing plate or you'll be making a special trip to the hardware store. Other than that great product with super fast ship. 29519
by: John H.01/07/2012
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E-trailer is a great company to deal with. The electric brake assemblies were exactly the same are the original which insured installation was smooth and easy. Support after the sale is unsurpassed. They follow-up after the sale with instructional video clips to insure there are no "hiccups". After installation of the new brakes, I road tested and calibrated the controller (a device that I previously purchased from E-trailer). E-trailer was referred to me by a friend. I will definitely use them again and will not hesitate to refer them to others. Lastly the assemblies are American made and the shipping was free, could not improve on service, product or value. Thanks29269
by: William Simmons01/06/2012
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Brake assemblies were shipped super fast and they were an exact replacement for original equipment. I'm impressed with the time line and the product. I'll do business with them again. Thanks29204
by: jerry f.01/05/2012
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great price, properly assembled and lubed, specs. were right on. 29158
by: Scott H.12/05/2011
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OEM product with good price and fast de livery!27690
by: RICK BARDSLEY09/25/2011
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everything was great 24540
by: kazuaa08/20/2011
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these brakes work great,easy install 22356
by: Dale F.08/17/2011
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Quickest and easiest brake job I've ever done. Replaced all 4 wheels in a matter of a few hours. Did not have to remember how everything goes back together, just 4 bolts to remove and reinstall, and done. Best of all, made in the USA! Keep Americans working! 22021
by: Jerry08/04/2011
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Order was placed on Sunday night, arrived in the driveway on Wednesday afternoon. Great deals and great service. Also saved big on the Free Shipping. Thanks, etrailer.............. 21066
by: Dave D.07/26/2011
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Great product, easy replacement. Make the brake repair as easy as could be.20296
by: Pat L.07/22/2011
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Everything about my purchase, from the website, to the tracking, and the product was excellent. I would like to have seen a "little tighter" packing job for the weight being shipped. I have already told several people about your service !! Thank You19855
by: Gary H.07/07/2011
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I am really impressed how fast your company responded and shipped my order to me --- I ordered them the first of this week and they were delivered today --- that is fast service and the order was exact and I will definitely do more business with your company in the future and I recommend your company to my friends and neighbors Thank You for your prompt response.18863
by: Kevin D06/20/2011
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Great price, name brand product, delivery was fast.17287
by: Mel06/16/2011
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Very happy with the quick response and the status updates regarding the purchase. Received the products as ordered and they arrived a day early. Have been very happy with price, quality and efficiency of etrailer operations. 17109
by: John D06/15/2011
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Ordered on Sunday paid for 3-5 day delivery (very reasonable) package arrived 5 days later. Everything was in the package and the one brake set I have installed fit perfectly. What else can you ask for? The rain to stop so I can install the other 3 sets. Very pleased with ordering and shipping. Haven't had to contact support so I can't comment.17084
by: Bill B06/07/2011
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Cost of parts was excellent. Delivery timeframe was beyond expectations. The parts were exactly as requested. They were exact replacements to the original brake assemblies. They were replacement parts for or fifth wheel camper. Brakes had just failed on a return trip from Florida.16398
by: Greg G.04/19/2011
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Great looking produce 12008
by: Greg G.04/09/2011
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fast shipping great produces very pleased with the transaction.11411
by: James N.03/25/2011
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Easy install. 10397
by: Leonard Leach03/22/2011
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2nd order I have received from etrailer, both times del was on time and just what I ordered, Great price and product,will use again and will tell others to shop etrailer, Thanks for keeping price low,10147
by: Paul D.03/03/2011
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I'm not sure which I am impressed more with, the item I purchased or the customer service. First of all the item was exactly what I wanted. More importantly it was made here in the U. S. A. I tend to be critical of customer service and so far this company has got it right! Thanks so much for the prompt service! I will be buying all my trailer parts here. 8334
by: Hank02/17/2011
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Fast shipping, Just as ordered, Thanks for the great service!!7379
by: steve reed01/03/2011
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On-line Ordering Made Easy I dont think i have ever ordered parts so easy than from e-trail. All the parts i was looking from were listed and the ones that i didnt find that were odd i typed in and they popped up. Now that was awesome. We buy from a other big trailer company normally and they didnt even have listings for the stuff i checking on or even match the price if they put it together piece by piece. i ordered on the weekend and had them on wednesday morning. The parts were right and they are on the trailer now. Thanks! 4906
by: Rob V12/20/2010
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Great Service Every time I order I get extremely fast service, delivery before I expected and exactly the parts I wanted at good prices. E Trailer is always my first stop when looking for trailer parts.4359
by: Eli04/25/2010
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Great replacement. This product was a direct bolt on replacement. The fact it was pre-assembled was a plus.2962
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