Cobra Trailer brakes

Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs
& grease seals.

go to www.cobratrailer.de They do have an english page and will mail stuff
quickly. I got parts in about a week
williscomb

Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs
& grease seals.

We didn't drive with the hand brake on, did we?
:)
JJ Sinclair

(R Barry) wrote in message . com...
Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs
& grease seals.

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J.J.
Let me put it this way, I definetly didn't leave the house with the
hand brake on. Where I have to hook up at the house I must pull the
trailer about 5' to my truck. So I know it rolled free. At some
point on the freeway (about 15 miles from home) traffic slowed to
about 10 mph and some guy pulled up next and gave me the finger point
at the trailer and some other gestures. There was somke comming from
the right wheel and tire, the brake drums were so hot it melted my
plastic hub caps. The brake handle was in the up position at this
time. I'm very consious about the brake handle when hooking up and in
transit, I'm assuming that upon leaving my driveway and making a
u-turn down the street it might have pulled the break away cable and
set the hand brake and pulling up in front of the house I should have
checked it again.
I (thanks to the guy that I oue at least a 12 pack of beer or more)
caught the problem before it destroyed the bearings, races and
spindles. The tire was hotter than hell and if I had of had a tire
catch on fire I'd have been calling Costello on Monday (got a fire
extingusher now)

(JJ Sinclair) wrote in message ...

Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs
& grease seals.

We didn't drive with the hand brake on, did we?
:)
JJ Sinclair

Are you sure the ball races and bearings are okay?
We had this happen to a club trailer a couple of years
ago (not a Cobra but the same Alko hub that Cobra uses).
The wheels didn't quite fall off but they didn't half
graunch and on closer inspection the ball races were
shot and some of the balls were square, all the grease
having boiled/burnt off. The brake shoes also needed
replacing.

At 14:48 13 July 2004, R Barry wrote:
J.J.
Let me put it this way, I definetly didn't leave the
house with the
hand brake on. Where I have to hook up at the house
I must pull the
trailer about 5' to my truck. So I know it rolled
free. At some
point on the freeway (about 15 miles from home) traffic
slowed to
about 10 mph and some guy pulled up next and gave me
the finger point
at the trailer and some other gestures. There was somke
comming from
the right wheel and tire, the brake drums were so hot
it melted my
plastic hub caps. The brake handle was in the up position
at this
time. I'm very consious about the brake handle when
hooking up and in
transit, I'm assuming that upon leaving my driveway
and making a
u-turn down the street it might have pulled the break
away cable and
set the hand brake and pulling up in front of the house
I should have
checked it again.
I (thanks to the guy that I oue at least a 12 pack
of beer or more)
caught the problem before it destroyed the bearings,
races and
spindles. The tire was hotter than hell and if I had
of had a tire
catch on fire I'd have been calling Costello on Monday
(got a fire
extingusher now)

(JJ Sinclair) wrote in message news:...

Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes,
return springs
& grease seals.

We didn't drive with the hand brake on, did we?
:)
JJ Sinclair

J.J.
Let me put it this way, I definetly didn't leave the house with the
hand brake on

Didn't mean to make light of a real potential problem, but I did recognize the
list of parts that needed replacing. I once had a Komet hand brake that would
pop on if I looked side-ways at it. A little bump and the gas strut would go
over-center and, well you know the rest. I would tie it down just to prevent
its self-initiated action.
JJ Sinclair

J.J.
I know you were trying to make light of the situation and I didn't
take the comment ofensivly. I found a brake shop in Riverside that
will turn the drums reline the shoes, they have the seals in metric.
They havn't located a perfect match for the return springs yet, close
but not exact. The bearings were in good shape not blued or chipped
and the same with the races. I'll look closer tomorrow. In the
meantime I've been watching awsome Q's and lenticular clouds over the
Big Bear and San Gabriels and can't get the trailer to roll!!
Russ

One dry chem extinguisher won't be enough to put out a tire fire. By
the time the tire catches fire, everything is so hot it just
reignites.

You may want to carry a product called Cold Fire for A B and D fires.
It has much greater cooling properties than dry chem. Check it out at:
http://www.firefreeze.com/site/page1.cfm

Stay cool,
Steve

(R Barry) wrote in message . com...
snip... The tire was hotter than hell and if I had of had a tire
catch on fire I'd have been calling Costello on Monday (got a fire
extingusher now)
....snip

(R Barry) wrote in message . com...
J.J.
Let me put it this way, I definetly didn't leave the house with the
hand brake on. Where I have to hook up at the house I must pull the
trailer about 5' to my truck. So I know it rolled free. At some
point on the freeway (about 15 miles from home) traffic slowed to
about 10 mph and some guy pulled up next and gave me the finger point
at the trailer and some other gestures. There was somke comming from
the right wheel and tire, the brake drums were so hot it melted my
plastic hub caps. The brake handle was in the up position at this
time. I'm very consious about the brake handle when hooking up and in
transit, I'm assuming that upon leaving my driveway and making a
u-turn down the street it might have pulled the break away cable and
set the hand brake and pulling up in front of the house I should have
checked it again.
I (thanks to the guy that I oue at least a 12 pack of beer or more)
caught the problem before it destroyed the bearings, races and
spindles. The tire was hotter than hell and if I had of had a tire
catch on fire I'd have been calling Costello on Monday (got a fire
extingusher now)

(JJ Sinclair) wrote in message ...

Anybody know where to source Cobra trailer brake shoes, return springs
& grease seals.

We didn't drive with the hand brake on, did we?
:)
JJ Sinclair


Advise: In a recent safety speech at a contest, John Murray described
pretty much what you are talking about. The later production trailers
use seaaled bearings which will fail after overheating you have
described. The bearings are virtually impossible to get quickly and
locally. As a result, you would be well advised to get a set of brake
drum assy's with bearings and have on hand. If it got as hot as you
describe, the grease will be lost or at least compromised ndd failure
is very likely to happen sooner than later.
Tow Safely UH