[Vwdiesel] Rabbit towing trucks. Old air in tyres...

[Shirley, Mark R]

There are two types of trailer brake systems:
Electric, and servo actuated hydraulic.
The electric is simple and reliable, but more complicated
to setup, and the servo brakes, also known as surge braking,
is dead easy, since it's self contained, but sometimes disconcerting
to drive.  

This is all consumer level stuff that you'd likely tow a car with, not
including any commercial stuff, like air brakes, etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Sloan [mailto:dsloan at DRAKE.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:27 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: RE: [Vwdiesel] Rabbit towing trucks. Old air in tyres...
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Has anyone ever designed a towing system where the tower 
> > [towwer?] could link into the hydraulics of the towed and so 
> > use the brakes of the towee No? Then I feel an invention 
> coming on :o)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I would think that bleeding the system might be a 
> hassle...and failsafes
> would have to be added in case of break-aways. (just picture 
> spraying your
> brake fluid all over the road after the break...) 
> 
> The big RV folks use air actuated brake systems (like the 
> semis), and can
> connect into the hydraulic systems of their towed vehicles 
> through third
> party systems.  I know that there were/are some systems that work on
> inertia... I haven't seen a hydraulic to hydraulic system though.
> 
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