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Your point about heavy trailers requiring break away brakes is exactly my point. Everyones suggestions about using 105 or M200 or m796 sound good but I haven't seen anyone exactly giving these parts away. Does anyone know of sources for these parts?

Thanks, I'll look around and see if I can find some 105 brake parts. I'm just not sure how available they will be. I appreciate the help.

I messaged Mdmorgan and he said that he hasn't crossed this bridge yet. I talked to a heavy truck mechanic today and came up with the following points and ideas. - The way that MV trailers are set up does not allow for trailer self braking when lost on the road from its tow vehicle. Upon...

"Why not set it up like a m1061? It has (basically) 2 m105 master cylinders and a single air tank. Just rob the safety valve, tank and actuators of some donor m105's?" QUOTE Right, are the 105's powerfull enough, and why did you say 2 master cylinders? Are you saying to have one per side...

Its just deuce frame and running gear (no cab or engine) and suspension as a trailer. No front axle, but with landing gear.

Thanks for that thread link. It sounds like if I remove the J pipe from the back of the air pack and attach an air hose there and run it up to the front with a glad hand it should work. Then I'd run an air line from my trucks pass. side glad hand back to the trailers air tanks to supply them...

"If you do a search for towing a deuce with a deuce there are threads about hooking airlines into the "air-pack". That would be the second brake thingy you were talking about. The first one is the master cylinder." QUOTE Right, I searched around and could only find nice pictures of this type...

My other thought would be to maybe add a pneumatic cylinder to replace the brake peddle, but that might be tough to tune the distance for equal braking from the truck.

I am in the mental designing stages of a TOP SECRET project here at Fort One Bay and need some suggestions. From looking under the truck, the deuce brakes are activated by the pedal putting pressure into the hydrolic resivoir (sorry for the spelling, I can't get the spell check to work for me)...