How To Manual Adjust My Electric Brakes

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Installed akebrk7, was trying to manually adjust brakes to get them close, but I dont see a way to access the star wheel?

asked by: Walter

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When it comes to adjusting your electric brakes # AKEBRK-10 you will adjust them out until you hear a slight but constant drag of the pads on the drum. There are specialty brake adjustment tools that you can buy locally but if you have the right sized flathead screwdriver you will be ok.

There is a star wheel inside the brake assembly, accessible through an opening at the lower, back side of the assemblies. There may or may not be a plug in the opening that you would have to take out first to access the star wheel.

On self adjusting brakes like mentioned in this answer, you should not manually adjust them. If you over adjust it is very very difficult to back off. Going on a safe road and hitting the manual override without the brakes of the truck a hand full of times (can be up to 20) will get the brakes to seat/adjust to their drums and won't over adjust

I will attach a link for an electric brake installation below. Around the 4-5 minutes mark they will talk about manually adjusting.

expert reply by: Noah E

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Answer 1

Self-adjusting brakes #AKEBRK-7-SA do not require that you travel in reverse for them to adjust. They can adjust themselves going forward or backward. Keep in mind that even self-adjusting brakes require 1 initial adjustment. You could just install…

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Self-adjusting brakes like the etrailer.com Electric Brake Kit #AKEBRK-35-SA that you recently installed do require an initial calibration, which it sounds like you have already done. From there the brakes will continue to set themselves to the…

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Answer 4

I have included a link to a video on adjusting self-adjusting brakes. Basically there is a device on the adjustment wheel on these brakes that prevents the shoes from adjusting back inward. You have to sort of move that out of the way to be able to…

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

We have the Draw Tite front hitch part #65053 that fits your 2022 Ford E-450 Jayco motorhome.

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Answer 8

The 3-3/4" measurement is measuring to the triangle piece/gusset. This does have some slight variation depending on the weld. After measuring I found that the distance from the center of the closest hole to the base of the gusset is…

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