It's funny how when someone else has an issue, we can think clearly and methodically about how to address it, but when it happens to us, the answers seem less obvious.
I took the boat to the lake last week, a tow of several hundred miles. The brakes worked perfectly nearly all the way down, however in the last several miles I had the sense that the trailer just wasn't rolling as freely as it normally does, as though the brakes maybe weren't releasing completely or like someone had added 800 more pounds to the boat. I checked the hub temps; none of them were higher than normal and the difference between them was as expected. No clue there. We launched the boat and parked the trailer for the week. On Sunday, we hitched up, got the boat out of the water, and headed toward storage. The brakes seemed to be completely non-functional - not good in the Ozark mountains. And, taking off from a stop, the coupler was obviously traveling farther than normal - not clunking, but almost. And yet - when I got to storage and had to go from forward to reverse several times to maneuver, back into the unit, etc., the brakes seemed to nearly lock up at times.
There were no puddles under the trailer where it was parked and I didn't notice any fluid on the wheels or trailer. But I also didn't have time on this trip to open the MC to see what the fluid level was. Obviously, low fluid would explain the coupler travel and lack of braking action, but what about the apparent dragging and locking?
Anything jumping out here?
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