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I have issue with one break on truck. When breaking is bit sudden and stronger it gets stuck usually In middle of traffic, and by the time when we get out of traffic drum gets streamjng hot. What would you recommend how to solve this repeating issue.

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That is a great way to do it!

as a road side tech I'd say that works good to keep your trailer from locking up. If your truck has drums the same thing could happen although I see that less often. just keep a hammer and a drift punch of some sort and you can sort it out yourself every time.

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Then what's your approach to the problem

I've had my drives cam over but luckily I was in the parking lot

​@@ounautic1914replace the brakes

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You mean they get stuck like this a lot? This is a pretty common issue so I wouldn't be surprised if you are running into it multiple times in a year.

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Well that is a tough one, now I am guessing if you have a dust cover then you have disc brakes and not drum brakes? If you have disk brakes I suppose you could tap on the rotor very carefully to try and achieve the same results. But I would be worried about damaging the rotor. I have never once had my disc brakes lock up on me though so I haven't had the chance to try it on discs.

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Has it been raining a lot lately?

@@DDTruckDriver yeah it has

@@truckercarlson9081 So we see this pretty often when it rains. If it rains and then dries it creates rust on the fresh metal of the drums and that’s when we see this happen a lot. The other instance we see it happens is when you’re running in weather that’s freezing because the brakes get hot and get wet but then when you stop for the night if you set your brakes the water cools off and freezes to your drums. If this is happening regularly and it’s not raining then something is up but if it’s been raining off and on it could just be some rust and the best way to stop it on your trailers is to not set your trailer brakes at night

Usually freezing temps and/or moisture getting into the air lines

@@wukilla8ee I live in Arizona, so I don't have much of either freezing or water. I wonder what it could be.

While you are driving and hit the brake pedal they will lock up and stay locked up? Or they are slow to release?

Now if I could figure the break lights out

well it could be that you have more than brakes stuck to the drum. You could have a frozen air line, a bad air valve, or bad brake can. If it is below freezing my first thought wold be frozen air lines.

Yes we have trailers like that, depending on your suspension it can be hard to get to, sometimes you have to be creative or squeeze in somewhere to reach a spot where you can do a half way decent swing

Some of those drums get some rust and corrosion built up don't they!

What you have described sounds just like a brake locking up. If it is just one brake it would be hard to see or even feel. Are you getting any flat spot tires?

@@DDTruckDriver how can we fix this

@@hhbhhhhbhhh7523 Fix your brakes locking up? By doing what it says in the video. But are you talking about something else?

My understanding is that if you don't have the weight of a load the tires don't have the necessary contact pressure on the road and it doesn't take much brake application to lock them up.

Sounds like a brake is adjusted more tightly than the others

Well to be honest I most often use this when it is summer time and it rains and then the brakes get stuck to the drums with rust. I certainly have had to use it in winter time to, but you can avoid that by not setting your brakes and letting them cool first. Drum brakes are weird and then can get stuck just about anytime of the year.

@@asphalttarmasters6735 anytime a trailer sets that long to stick it needs to be checked out first. i have drove trucks from 1985 until 2009 and been a owner operator for most of that. and NEVER had a brake stick other than froze to it that didn't need repaired.

@@MadsWorld34 Everyone's experience can be different but rust is usually our worst enemy here. Either way, this is how you get them broke free. You can't pull it in the shop if it won't roll :).

This is the solution for that. Most the time they lock up because of water, which causes the smallest amount of rust on that fresh steel drum.

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All of your brakes are not setting or just one? This could be multiple problems. A brake severely out of adjustment could cause this but it is unlikely that all your brakes are out of adjustment that badly. A defective brake valve could be stopping the air from releasing out of the brake cans. Would have to know more info to diagnose that one

@@DDTruckDriver Yeah I think the air isn’t releasing because when my brother pulls the trailer brakes, I don’t hear the air release… only after sooooo long of playing with it, I’ll hear it release.

@OneHonestCritic did you ever find out the problem.

Mostly water that dries up and leaves rust behind and the rust sticks the brakes to the drum. It also happens in the winter when the brakes are hot and snow melts into water on the brakes. But then when you park the water freezes and ices up the brakes to the drum.

Haha well when you are making videos with equipment that is running everyday you get a very "real" perspective of how things wear and tear and brake.

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Haha, well every time I tell someone to hit the drum they tap it with a little nail hammer like they are hitting in a tiny penny nail. No one gets their brakes broken free by doing that. Of course it is possible to hurt your drum. But, have you ever seen a trailer mechanic do your brakes? Have you seen what they use to get the drum off it it is stuck to the hub? 10 lb sledge hammer with a full swing. So, as a former trailer mechanic myself, no you won't hurt your drum when laying down under your trailer trying to brake your brakes free. As this video is meant to provide you information on how to get your brakes free, my advice is to give it a good whack. Unless you are Barry Bonds you won't be able to get a big enough swing to do any damage.

Let me add a clarifying comment to that reply. I typically only think about drums as being centrifuse drums because that is all we have in our fleet. If you have cast drums you are correct you can crack those with a hammer.

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