Defective brake controller?

[rstarr8415]

I have a question for those of you that have been there done that.

Within a month of having the bearings on my Hideout 24RLS repacked I had a wheel bearing burn out. The shop that did the repacking took responsibility for the problem and replaced the brakes and bearings. Then 11 months later I had the same wheel in that location burn out again. I then had the axle replaced and repacked and aligned all wheels. On my next trip I checked the tempature of all wheels every 30 miles and found that the same wheel location on the new axle was heating up about 50 degrees hotter than the other wheels. I pulled into a highly recommended shop on route. I explained the problem to them and within 15 minutes they had diagnosed the problem as a defective OEM brake controller.
The Ford dealer checked my controller and said that it was ok. As a work around I installed a Tekonsha P3 after market controller and took a 1500 mile trip and had no problems. The brake wiring has been checked and found to be good.

Have any of you experienced this problem? I would like to replace the OEM controller so that the truck computer would connect properly with all its diagnostic info but don’t want to invite problems.