Skrap
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- Joined
- Jan 31, 2015
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- Location
- Orange County, CA
- Ram Year
- 2015 Laramie MegaCab 4x4
- Engine
- 6.4
Need some suggestions from those that know more than I. I ahve experience towing heavy load around town nut most has been with work truck and surge brakes. The family is moving from Socal to Tulsa OK area. We are moving ourselves do to cost and convience, believe it or not. My truck is a 2015 Ram 2500 Mega Cab with the 6.4 Hemi. On our first load out my 10K GVWR 24' enclosed cargo trailer is at full capacity. Earlier in the week i had it overloaded and scaled at 12,080 lbs so i took some stuff out and go it within about spec. Taking it to the scales today it is about 20 miles round trip in city driving. With the trail at 10K lbs i set the integrated brake control module at Heavy Electric with about 6-7% gain. When i got home this afternoon I checked the hubs and rims (the actual wheel hub is covered by an alumin chrome cover for looks) I noticed the rims that are right around the lug nuts were fairly warm. All four where this way. Being a new trailer, i fully greased the hubs/bearing until grease came out of the EZ **** hubs so I know they have proper gease.
I want to know if you think my brake controller may be set properly with the full 10K# trailer i'm towing. Do you think the Heavy Electric with 6-7% gain is too much? Does any of this cause more "drag" on the trailer drum brakes. The last 3 miles was stop and go traffic so it probably cause some extra heat to transfer to the rims. Should i be looking at using the Light Electric setting. The way it is set now is when I'm moving on the street at a crawl and squeeze the brake controller it will noticably slow the truck but not totally stop it unless I kept it squeezed for an extened period. I can get an IR heat gun but I wouldn't know what is a normal temp for hubs and rims to get during normal city driving situations. What say you more experienced towers.
I want to know if you think my brake controller may be set properly with the full 10K# trailer i'm towing. Do you think the Heavy Electric with 6-7% gain is too much? Does any of this cause more "drag" on the trailer drum brakes. The last 3 miles was stop and go traffic so it probably cause some extra heat to transfer to the rims. Should i be looking at using the Light Electric setting. The way it is set now is when I'm moving on the street at a crawl and squeeze the brake controller it will noticably slow the truck but not totally stop it unless I kept it squeezed for an extened period. I can get an IR heat gun but I wouldn't know what is a normal temp for hubs and rims to get during normal city driving situations. What say you more experienced towers.