Brake Pedal on my Dodge 3500

37chief

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I stopped for gas today, and had my tractor on the trailer of my Dodge. when leaving the station the brake pedal was very rough feeling when I applied the brakes. The brakes seamed like they didn't work. I was creeping along, then all was good, the brakes acted normal. Anyone have a idea what that was about? Stan
 
Had that happen on my Dodge service truck. Turned out to be the antilock system was messed up. Pedal would pulse but no brakes. Then the brakes came back.
 
Agree with Billy. The anti lock brakes where effecting your brake system. The anti lock brake systems scare the heck out of me. I have had them basically shut the brakes off on pickups while pulling trailers. IF the trailer brakes had not been working good it would not have been able to stop.

The anti lock brake system is disabled on both of the pickups I pull trailers with. They just are safer that way.
 
Each fall I take a turkey baster and suck out the brake fluid from the master cylinder, then replace with new break fluid and bleed the system. It seems to help this problem. Another problem is the fuel tank will develope a small leak at the electric fuel pump area...I caught my truck on fire - but was lucky enough to be able to put the fire out. Just finished replaceing the entire tank as it was deformed and melted from the fire. Just something else to watch out for. (There is always something)
 
I had an old dodge 200. The flex brake lines were bad. The inside rubber was defective. It acted like a check valve allowing brake fluid to go to the caliper, and not back to master cylinder. Could the opposite be happening to you?

I have seen brake fluid brake down, turned to jell. Same thing happened, calipers wouldn't release.
 
I had a Dodge dually which developed similar brake problems. Dealer said I needed a new computer. I would push on the brake peddel and nothing would happen except a pulsating feeling, pushed real hard and the brakes would lock and bring truck to a screeching stop.
I solved the problem by trading for a new Ford and have never been sorry about the trade.
 
I agree it was probably the ABS activating falsely. It can be caused by a faulty or rusty speed sensor on one or both of the front wheels. Mine did this too, but I just disabled the ABS .
 
My 3500 did that,except my pedal would go to the floor and I would have no brakes.A couple times I went through stop signs.The abs was the problem.They could never fix it right,so I unhooked the abs and then it had a good hard pedal.
 

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