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I agree with you that you could loose all your brakes but if you are thinking when or if it ever happens you simply reach down and activate the manual lever on the brake controller unit itself. In this case you would be using the trailer brakes to haul down the entire load so stopping distance would probably be 5 times that of normal. In the end you are not modifying anything per say. You are just putting in a "T" fitting and then reattaching the factory brake line on one end and installing the supplied pressure switch on the other.
As for the anti-lock thing. On my Ford with the Tow Command System when the trucks wheel brakes go into anti lock mode it is modulating the pressure coming from the master cylinder, thus also modulating the pressure to the brake controllers pressure switch. I am assuming the same would happen with this aftermarket system.
Builder or others with 2500 or 3500 GM trucks, do any of you have the factory brake controller? If so how does it work? I always assumed it was like the Fords but not sure.
Chris
I don't know how that would work since each axle needs an ABS sensor to make it work. For example, I had an early '99 Ford Superduty that had rear ABS only. The front axle & brakes did not. I also had a later '99 Ford Superduty. It had 4-wheel ABS. It had a ABS sensor on the front, IIRC. I would think any axle with ABS would need a sensor to work. However, it might be b/c the master cylinder has a "split system". I really don't know.
The GM factory brake controller came out the year after I bought my truck.
Somehow, I seem to be getting by without one. I think my 6-speed Ally with gradient braking might help.