Is this Dodge one of those built with the ABS brain box located just below the truck battery? Or maybe the wiring to the ABS brain box passes below the battery? My brother had one of those for about a year, and it got totalled for lack of stopping ability. Upon inspection, there was battery type corrosion in the wiring harness beneath the battery, even though the harness looked good.
I like the idea of ABS, but both my brother and my son (driving a company Chevy) have totalled trucks when the ABS malfunctioned. I pull a big 5th RV, and other heavy trailers with my 02 F350 P.S., and the idea of how the ABS and the trailer brake controller might or might not work together spooks me. Given a truck the age of yours, and knowing that it was one of the early ABS units, I'd just disarm the dang thing and run with good ole regular brakes that work every time in a very predictable manner.
I think the 3 big PU truck companies have made a giant step forward with the integrated trailer brake activator system that is built in and engineered to work with the truck's ABS. But it may have been 06 or 07 when the first generation of that system came out, and I am a believer in NEVER buying a first generation of anything.
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