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10 x 2-1/4 Inch DrumItem # 23-27
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10" x 2-1/4" Passenger's-side electric trailer brake assembly fits 3,500-lb axles. Mounting flange has a 4-bolt pattern. Fits 13" to 15" wheels.
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Video of Dexter Electric Trailer Brake Assembly - 10" - Right Hand - 3,500 lbs
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Speaker 1: Today we'll be taking a look at, and showing you how to install, the 10 inch Dexter Electric Trailer Brakes. They're available for the driver's side and the passenger side, or as a kit with both. They come in weight ratings of 3,000 pounds, 3,500 pounds, or 4,400 pounds. That's going to depend on which axle you have on your trailer.One of our customers, Paul, wrote in, "What is the difference between the 3,500 and 4,400 assembly and how do I know which axle I have on my trailer" Well that's easy, Paul. There should be a tag or information stamped into the axle. You just want to see what you have there, and refer to our site to get the appropriate one.
The 3,500 and the 4,400 are the weight ratings.This electric brake assembly is going to be a direct replacement for ones that may be existing on your trailer, or you can upgrade your trailer to add these. The manual inaudible 00:00:47 at the bottom will get a signal from the brake controller on your vehicle. Depending on the sensitivity of the brake controller, that will vary the magnitude of the magnetism on the magnet. The magnet will grab your drum brake, forcing the pads outward, causing the brakes to apply.The brake pads on our assembly are going to be bonded pads. What's nice about this versus riveted pads, is that as your brake pads wear, no rivets can poke through causing any damage to your drum assembly.
There is a left and right brake assembly. There's a sticker located on here that will tell you whether it's a left or right hand side. Another way you can help identify if you have the appropriate side is that this is a leading trailing pad set up, so the smaller pad is your leading pad, which goes towards the front, and the trailing is the larger pad, which is located towards the rear.It comes ready to wire, so you just need to hook it up to your old assembly's wiring if you've replaced it. Or if you're running new ones, you'll need to make sure you have one connection to ground and the other one connected to your brake controller signal. It doesn't matter which one's connected to which, either one will work.It'll connect to your axle with a four bolt pattern.
The hardware you'll need to connect it to your axles comes included with our assembly. When your tire's on, and the system's fully assembled, you can adjust it through the open slot, here at the back. The kit includes a small cover that can be placed over this, to seal up your assembly, once you're done adjusting.We're going to start with our wheel off. Since we're upgrading, by adding brakes to our system instead of just replacing an old assembly, we'll need to replace this hub with our new drum brake hub. You'll need to take the cap off here, at the end.
You'll just hammer this off. Below here, you're going to have your nut. To remove the nut, you're going to need to take the cotter pin, it's found beneath. We're going to have to straighten it back out, so we'll just grab it here, with our needle-nosed pliers. If you are planning on re-using that cap we knocked off, I do recommend using a rubber mallet for that, so you don't damage it. Once you've got the cotter pin straight, you can just pull the cotter pin out. We're going to set it aside. We've got a napkin laid down for everything, so that way, we don't make a mess.Now, we'll remove the nut, located here in the center, using a pair of channel locks. I'm just going to unthread that, all the way. And we're going to set it aside.Our whole hub assembly can now be pulled off. You want to note, though, that there's going to be a washer and a bearing that's just going to fall out, so we're going to use our needle-nose pliers to catch those. We'll set those aside, and now we can set our hub aside. Now, since we're adding drum brakes, we won't be re-installing that hub, nor any of the components except for the nut and the cotter pin and the washer. We won't be re-using the bearings.Now you're going to want to remove all that grease that's on there. And we can now install our drum brake assembly. You want to make sure you've got the wires and anything else out of the way, here on the back. Now, if you had an old assembly on yours, now's the time to remove it from your hub. There'll be four nuts on the back you'll need to remove, and you'll need to cut the two electrical wire that go to your old hub. Now, we can slide on our new hub. If you're just upgrading your brakes, there won't be one to remove, you'll just be sliding this on.Now we'll go around back and install our hardware. On the back side, your studs are going to poke through the hub flange. We're going to install a nut onto each stud. We'll now tighten down all our hardware, using an 11/16ths socket. You may need a wrench for some of these ones here. If you can't get to it with a socket, you may need to use a wrench.Now, if you're replacing your old brake assembly, you'll just want to re-install your hub in reverse order that you removed it. If you're upgrading your system, by adding these brake components, you'll need to purchase a new drum, with bearings and seal, which all is available here at etrailer.com. The new assembly will just slide on, if you are replacing it. On the other side, we'll install our bearing, followed by the washer that we removed. You want to make sure you get that pushed in there, so we can install our nut, which is the next component.The only thing I want to mention, as we're doing this process, you want to make sure to use plenty of grease. You'll see here, at the end of our axle, we do have a grease circ. We did repack all of our bearings, but we're going to make sure to use that grease circ, at the end, to finish filling it with grease. If you don't have that grease circ, you may want to pack additional grease inside your assembly. After you've got your bearings adjusted, you'll install your cotter pin, followed by your cap.We've gone ahead and put our tire back on, now. I find it easier to adjust the brakes, because you've got a little more leverage, and you can feel what it's going to feel like, when it's fully assembled. You're looking for a slight amount of drag. We've got just a little bit too much drag on this wheel, so we're going to adjust it, here at the back.You'll have access to your adjuster through the openings here, at the back. You can use a flat plated screwdriver, or they do have special drum brake adjustment tools, and you just want to turn this star wheel. Turning this wheel will adjust the tension of your brake pads, against the drum. One way to do this is tighten it down all the way, until your wheel stops moving, and then back it off. This ensures that you made good contact, and you've got the right amount of drag.And there we go, we've got just a little bit of drag, you can see the wheel still spins freely, but will, eventually, come to a stop, because of that slight amount of drag. Once you're finished adjusting, we can insert the plastic caps on the back of our backing plate. Now we're ready to connect our wiring.I'm now going to use some heat shrink yellow butt connectors, to make our connection for our wiring, here. Our blue wire is our brake signal wire, and our white wire is ground. If these are already run on your vehicle, because you're just replacing it, you'll just make a connection. Either color can go to either wire. If you're adding this to your system, you're going to need to run your own brake signal wire from your seven pole connector back, and also a ground wire. These colors may be different on your trailer.We'll then use a heat gun to shrink down our heat shrink butt connectors. On the back of your backing plate, you'll find a small, plastic clip. You can take your wiring and just snap it onto that. You do want to make sure that you leave yourself some slack, though, because your suspension is going to be moving up and down, and you don't want to yank out the wires. We are going to actually to it like this, so we have some slack. We'll now repeat this same process on the other side.And that completes our look at the ten inch Dexter Electric Trailer Brakes.
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (211 Customer Reviews)
10" x 2-1/4" Passenger's-side electric trailer brake assembly fits 3,500-lb axles. Mounting flange has a 4-bolt pattern. Fits 13" to 15" wheels.
Added brakes to my 6X10 Wells Cargo enclosed trailer. They are working great. Easy install. As always, new trailer brakes take some time to wear in before you get full "lock - up" level braking. I'd buy these again. As always, great order and order fulfillment experience with etrailer. 696553
I'm in the middle right now because 2 of the shoes had a fair size piece of the braking pad portion break away from the rest. They were very fast to send replacements so I have nothing but praise for that. I have done business with these people before and have had very fine experiences. I suspect this was just a fluke thing. I will order from here in the future. 295490
Excellent product, quality and customer service. 661698
I received these today, just three days after ordering. That is great service! These Dexter brake assemblies are Made in the USA and it shows. Good finish on all the components and all the necessary hardware is there. They fit perfect and adjusted up just as they should. You can't go wrong with these. 589170
Direct Replacement, Good quality, Easy to change out, Went from having no brakes to good brakes, Assembly worth the price, eliminating "hassle of only replacing the shoes, just to have a problem with one of the other old rusty or lost parts". DONE ! Thanks. 379909
Came as described, packaged i a “ bulletproof” package & parts went on without a hassle. Delivery was quick. Only company to trust in trailer maintenence 726422
I recieived my trailer parts very quickly after placing my order and the parts were very good quality, I recommend purchasing for etrailer.com 721908
Its exactly what I expected 715549
Great Deal 708113
Good experience using these guys getting the part I needed for my camper. Will use again if I need it. 707859
Good service and prices great follow up on shipping and tracking information thanks 634808
I ordered these electric brake assemblies on a Tuesday and they arrived at my home on Thursday!! It was pretty amazing. Now I can get started replacing the brakes on my trailer earlier than I hoped!! Thank you so much for fast action. I will definitely be turning to etrailer.com for all my work trailer and camper parts from now on!! 627748
Great product Pat was great would buy from them again 619517
Great replacement!! Works great!! 614074
Exactly what I ordered 603138
Just as advertised! 598459
Great product, and terrific service/price. I highly recommend etrailer! 592647
Very fast shipping, quality products. 589568
Ordered parts for my horse trailer on Saturday and here by Tuesday! Thankful for the fast service! 566341
Great Product, electric brake assembly and drum and hub assembly with new bearings were easy too install, and the parts were reasonably priced. Happy Customer. 563848
Excellent Product. Great Price. 563569
Everything worked fine, once I realized I had installed the unit the first time, upside down. 562237
quick, right, easy and less money than the competitors that were out of stock. 543557
So far so good and good stopping! 517749
Authentic made in USA by Dexter Axle. Exact replacement fit and function. etrailer offered excellent price, super-fast shipping, and lots of information resources to help DIYers. Genuine Dexter quality and 5 year warranty for LESS than inferior imported knock-off. 474697
Fixed my trailer brakes, now the trailer stops the truck! 474517
Good product No issues 474149
arrived in a timely manner, bolted right up, works great, will buy from etrailer.com next time I need parts. 453504
All product were shipped fast and all were correct, and it took about 1 hour to install every thing . Thanks for your help again. Ernie E. 451892
All worked out great. After installing the new parts I drove to Florida and back approximately 3000 miles. All went well. Thanks John 404768
Very good knowledge of parts needed. Fast shipping 404176
Exactly what I expected. Good quality and customer service was excellent! 386820
Received in a timely manner. 363687
No problems with installation. Everything working perfectly fine. Good purchase. 357639
Direct replacement. Work really well. 349963
A year ago I ordered 4 trailer brake assembly sets, brake drums and bearings. They arrived quickly and in good condition. Everything fit well and I had no problems when I towed my trailer across the country. I would definitely buy from Etrailer again. 343049
I bought a new car trailer with brakes on only 1 axle. etrailer had the exact same brakes for me to put on the second axle. These drum brakes were really easy to install, wire and adjust / re-adjust. I'd really recommend brakes on both axles if like me you're towing close to 7000lb. I've made a couple emergency stops around town, and didn't have the feeling i was being pushed by the trailer at all. I'd also really recommend getting a high tech brake controller if you're buying one. I had a cheap one that really sucked, i had to constantly readjust brake power every time my speed varied (to stop being pushed by the trailer at speed or jerking to a stop at low speed). Annoying and dangerous IMO. 337010
Great assembly, price and very fast shipping , thanks !!! 335010
Worked perfectly for my trailer. 328524
etrailer.com is my only source for trailer parts. It will continue to be as long as customer service continues to be a priority, as it is now. The information on the website--articles and videos--is extremely helpful, as are the good people working at etrailer. Keep up the good work folks and you will continue to do well with your business. 329799
I removed and reconditioned the axles on my snowmobile trailer. Salt corrosion damaged the brake assemblies. The replacements assemblies from etrailer.com bolted right on and made short work of the brake repair. 326873
Still working just fine.
Jeff K - 12/22/2017Worked great 321209
Arrived in perfect condition, for the money this is the best way to replace the brakes, installed these on my pop up camper that had bad brake shoes. Quick shipping and great service as usual from etrailer. 313494
Great product easy to install. Used on an inclosed snowmobile trailer. Good price. 308887
Product looked and works fantastic! Very easy install and function. 306653
We bought bearings,seals,brakes and brake drums for our horse trailer as we travel around with are furry pet.We give a A+ for quality,service and price .will use trailer for all are future needs. Thank you 305547
Just great.We bought wheel bearings,Brake shoes and drum.I just repacked the wheel bearings and everything looks new.Your great company and a good price 2 thumbs up and 2 happy horses.
Jim M - 10/08/2017So far so good. I have not used the trailer much since I have installed the new parts. It gets used through the fall and winter for hunting. 303177
Easy install, seem to work well 302831
Very good deal, well pleased. I would recommend this product. 301768
Changing these out was easier than I would have thought. Everything went together without a hitch. Pardon the pun. I am very happy with the quick shipping, ease of installation and performance of the brakes. Thank you. 300779
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