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severnmiles

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Does anyone else have a problem when you put the break on and leave it on for a few days the wheels get stuck on and take ages to free them up?

Is there anything you can do to stop/help this problem, apart from the obvious of not putting the break on.
 
my mate had the same prob, was on a slight hill so had to use brake, used to seize up on a regular basis, really peed her boyfriend off as he had to get whhel off to free it, she sold it and bought a rice?
 
When we had an trailor, we never left it with the brake on for that reason. Just parked it on level ground and clamed it and it was fine. The few occasions we forgot, it jammed up.
 
should never leave a parked up trailer with the breaks on of any model. You need to get some wheel blocks if it's on a slope.

Well that's what I've always been told and have done. I have a rice and when a "nice" person at the yard kept putting the break on for me it caused no end of trouble.
 
It is caused by a build up of brake dust and mud that inside the brake drum.Mine is a pig for doing it and the only way i could free it was buy getting a rubber mallett and gently tap in inside of the drum.Thats what i have to do anyways.
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I was told that when you park it, you should roll it a couple of feet the opposite direction before applying the brake.

I don't use the brake since having to take wheel off whilst wearing best jods at 5.30 one morning!!

Note to God:
Please let me have enough money to buy a horsebox. Amen
 
I just don't put the handbrake on. Ours is parked on slight downhill but before unhitching I just put the wheel clamp on and a couple of bricks the other side. I then unhitch. The other thing I've heard is after you've reversed it into your parking place, drive it forward a little to release the autoreverse mechanism thingy - I'm not a very technically minded person!
 
not just ifors that suffer with the handbrake problem, caravans in fact most trailers that use a similar method will be prone to it....various theories as to why it occurs.....to be honest i think its due to the connecting linkages that seize up no matter how much grease you put on them....we are on our second ifor and have never used the handbrake....house brick in front and behind the wheels never fails to work....
 
I had this problem on an old trailer, it's not exclusive to Ifor Williams. I just park up, wheelclamp it & chock the rear wheels. The brakes have never stuck on my new trailer but there again I rarely use the handbrake for that sole reason.
 
we park ours on a slope, bricks under the wheels and the break off. Its not moved yet.
One trick we were taught if it seizes sometimes reversing it will free the brake. when that doesnt work we drag it forward onto the yard and take the wheels off, smack the drum put wheels on and away we go. takes about 10 mins, its not a major thing.
 
Had exactly thios problem when OH brought Ollie back from PC party after dark (park in a v dark area with big metal posts) & then left the trailer in a different place over Christmas until he could get back in daylight & move it. Learned the lesson to use blocks if we come back & it's too dark to park in the proper place again.
 
Although my trailer is parked on the flat and I never put the handbrake on, the wheels still used to seize as it's always reversed in to the yard and therefore the 'tow hitch is pushed in.

Now, when I get home, I reverse it into its' space, get out and shove a car battery in front of the front wheels and then pull forward. This pulls the tow hitch back out, and hey presto! the wheels don't seize up any more.

I had it all serviced last summer just to be sure!
 
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