Well, after reading on here, I purchased the MaxBrake Trailer brake controller. I used it last weekend pulling a gooseneck with my pulling truck on it. The trailer and truck come to about 13k lbs. I would have to say that the MaxBrake controller worked flawlessly. I was amazed at how smooth it was. I have had about 5 different "traditional" brake controllers over the years and they all worked about the same. There was either too much brake or not enough. The bumps on the road if you were activly braking would cause the trailer brakes to lock and unlock.
The installation was very easy. Took about 5 minutes to add the tee in the hydraulic line and bleed the line. Of the 5 minutes, it took about 2 to get the wife to put her shoes on and come out to operate the brake pedal to bleed the fitting and new brake line...
The wife usually drives on the way home from the pulls and she gave it the big thumbs up. She hated the old controllers because they would brake erratic. The new one is really seemless.
Here's the only bad... I paid almost $350 for a brake controller and the controller itself is probably the ugliest controller I have seen. I mean, really... If you look at a $60 Hoppy controller in the farm store, they have a better looking controller than this thing. MaxBrake needs to step it up when it comes to the look of the controller. They paid for the tooling to have the case molded. It doesn't cost much more to have it look good vs. the shape it is.
Otherwise this controller works great. It really depends on the amount of towing you do if the $$ is worth it. I tow every weekend from June through August/September so the cost was worth it.
Also got a discount at Southwest wheel by using the tractorbynet coupon code.
Later
Chris
The installation was very easy. Took about 5 minutes to add the tee in the hydraulic line and bleed the line. Of the 5 minutes, it took about 2 to get the wife to put her shoes on and come out to operate the brake pedal to bleed the fitting and new brake line...
The wife usually drives on the way home from the pulls and she gave it the big thumbs up. She hated the old controllers because they would brake erratic. The new one is really seemless.
Here's the only bad... I paid almost $350 for a brake controller and the controller itself is probably the ugliest controller I have seen. I mean, really... If you look at a $60 Hoppy controller in the farm store, they have a better looking controller than this thing. MaxBrake needs to step it up when it comes to the look of the controller. They paid for the tooling to have the case molded. It doesn't cost much more to have it look good vs. the shape it is.
Otherwise this controller works great. It really depends on the amount of towing you do if the $$ is worth it. I tow every weekend from June through August/September so the cost was worth it.
Also got a discount at Southwest wheel by using the tractorbynet coupon code.
Later
Chris
