Dexter Electric Trailer Brake Assembly - Self-Adjusting - 12" - Left Hand - 8,000 lbs

Video Transcript for Review of Dexter Axle Trailer Brakes - Left Hand Electric Brake Assembly - K23-532-00

Ellen: Hey, everyone. I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com and we're going to be taking a quick look at the Dexter electric brake assembly.This is for the left hand side or the driver's side of your trailer, and this makes a great improvement over your typical surge brake or hydraulic brake assembly. The nice thing about electric brakes is that it's going to give you a really good stop . give you really good stopping power, but without the need to run any kind of hydraulic lines, which can be messy and cumbersome. Can take a lot of maintenance to keep those maintained, so this makes it a bit easier. Of course, with an electric brake assembly or electric brakes, you are going to need to have a brake controller for your vehicle that you're actually towing with, so that is something to keep in mind.

The only other thing you'll have to do besides put this on your axle or put it on your wheel assembly is to connect the power here. There's going to be two wires at the back to connect up to power and ground.Let's take a closer look at this assembly to make sure that it's the right fit for your particular application. This brake assembly, again, is for the left hand side. It's for a 8,000 pound axle rating. And it has our magnet at the bottom, which is going to provide that stopping force.

On either side, we'll have our brake shoes. These are bonded to the actual housing rather than being riveted, so you don't have to worry about them coming off or causing any damage once they wear down. A lot of times with the riveted style, that rivet can then be a point that will tear into the hub assembly, so these are instead bonded to it. They follow the contour of the whole brake assembly, and they are cut at an angle. Here's their chamfer at the edge, which gives them a better braking force and reduces the risk of those crumbling up and breaking out.The hardware is included with this, the nuts to go on the back, and there is a backing plate, which is plastic.

And some people might think that that's a bad thing, but it actually is kind of nice because then it prevents any risk of there being corrosion back here. With a metal plate that's always an issue, so the backing plate being plastic is going to keep that from happening and keep it from getting any kind of corrosion on the rest of the assembly. Now, this is a . or a self-adjusting brake assembly, so you don't have to manually adjust the braking tension. It should tighten up on its own.

You can make adjustments if it's grabbing too much at first, or make that initial adjustment using the little wheel at the bottom. The plugs for that to plug up this backing plate are sold separately. They just keep out any kind of water from getting in through those little slots at the back where you would make those adjustments. You can purchase those if you'd like. Again, they are sold separately.This is made in the USA. The bolt pattern that this will fit onto, or the mounting flange, full Patterson, is a four bolt assembly. It fits AL-KO or Hayse axles only. The wheel size that this will work with is 16" or larger. Again, the axle rating is 8,000 pounds. This will work with most hub and drum assemblies, including Dexter, Lippert, or LCI and AL-KO or Hayse assemblies. Again, this is the driver's side. It is a 12" diameter and 3-3/8" wide.That's pretty much all there is to it for our look at the Dexter trailer axle brake assembly. If you need the right hand side, that is listed as a related product on the product page here at etrailer.com, so you'll want to pick that up at the same time so they ride the same. But I hope this has been helpful in deciding if this is the right one for you. Again, I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com. Thanks for watching.