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Several years back I started getting an intermittent problem with my trailer brake system. It would flash that I had no connection and then right back to everything was fine. This went on for about a year. Finally, and at the top of the Siskiyous headed into OR from CA the system indicated I had no brakes at all on the trailer! So we crept down the mountain and worked our way on over to the coast.
Thanks to the brakes (15 inchers) on the truck we had no major problems. When we got to our park we talked with the folks who run the place and they knew a reputable guy who worked on this sort of thing. Turned out that the brake wire was routed thru the axle. Inside the axle the wires had worn the protective covering off the wire. This would cause a short anytime the exposed wire touched the metal in the axle.
The easy fix was to cut and remove that bad section and replace with good wire. We routed the new wire on the outside of the axle. We've had no issues since the fix. Good luck. Dennis
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