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Adding Electric Brakes to 1999 Jayco Pop-Up Camper Trailer  

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I bought a 1990 Jayco 1406 popup camper. The guy I bought it from told me it had electric brakes. On my first shake down trip, I realized all the braking action was on my car. Can a 1990 Jayco have electric brakes? It has other electric problems, so I will be working on anyhow.

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Jayco offered its 1999 Pop-Up camper trailer with and without brakes. Typically pop-up campers are equipped with electric drum brakes.

It is likely that the brakes are bad or there is a wiring issue on your 25 year old trailer. Hopefully you have a brake controller. If there was a wiring issue or if there were no brakes on the trailer at all, then the brake controller should have indicated so.

First you want to determine if you have brakes or not (hub and drum vs. idler hubs). An idler is a hub that is no provisions for trailer brakes. It has no brake drum. See part # 8-248-50UC1. Part # 8-276-5 is an example of a hub/ drum that has a brake drum that can be used with a brake assembly like part # 23-47.

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