etrailer | RoadMaster 9700 Braking System Second Vehicle Kit Installation - 2009 Ford Escape

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Hi there, Escape owners. Today in your 2009 Ford Escape, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install Roadmasters Second Vehicle Kit for the 9700 Series Supplemental Braking System.There's five main components you'll need when flat towing your Escape behind your motor home. You'll need your tow bar, which is the connection between your motor home and your vehicle. You'll need your base plate, which provides the connection point for your tow bar to attach to your vehicle. You'll need your diode wiring, which takes all the lighting signals from your motor home and transfers them back to the lights at the back of your vehicle, so people behind you know your intentions when going down the road. And you'll need your supplemental braking system, which will apply the brakes in your vehicle when you hit the brakes in your motor home.

The last thing you'll need is just some safety cables, which acts as a supplemental connection in addition to your tow bar.Now I do want to make you aware that you should verify in your vehicle's owner's manual and check with your dealer before flat-towing your Escape, because there are going to be some restrictions, particularly with speed when flat towing your Escape as is. This kit is specifically designed for Roadmasters portable braking system, the 9700 models, and it provides you with everything that you'll need to be able to use this supplemental portable system in another vehicle. Now it only comes with the side that you'll need for your vehicle. So the motor home section of parts you will not get with this kit, but you shouldn't need them because if you're using the same motor home and you're just trying to tow a different car, you've got everything you need for that other car. And that's mainly the stuff you'll need just to get this unit operating.We'll get everything we need in our kit for the vehicle side.

And there's two main connectors you'll have on your 9700 Series that we'll need to plug in. Both of these connectors come provided with our kit. And you'll see here, we've got a green wire that has a single bullet connector that plugs in, and this is the wire that is the brake signal from the motor home so the system knows when we're hitting the brakes. You'll receive the bullet connector that you'll plug this into, as well as a length of wire. And that'll go to a set of diodes where it taps into your diode wiring to allow you to intercept those lighting signals from your motor home and send them to your 9700 Series braking system here.

This allows it to know when the brake pedal's being depressed so it knows how to properly apply the brakes.Next to that, we have a two wire connector, and this is for the breakaway switch that comes included with our kit that we'll install on the front of our vehicle. And this is an important safety component, because in the event of a catastrophic disconnect, the 9700 Series here will be able to see that the pin was pulled on the breakaway switch, because it will complete the context between them. And that will allow our 9700 Series here to kick in and apply the brakes to help our vehicle come to a safe stop.Here outside the vehicle, you can see the monitor light wire. This is also a single bullet connector, but it's going to be a black wire. And this will route from here in the front inside the vehicle and connect to the stoplight switch in the vehicle.

So that way, whenever the braking system applies the brakes, the stoplight switch that's connected to the brake pedal in our Escape here is going to then send an output down this wire, which we can then plug into the back of our motor home. And that'll go to the monitor light inside the motor home and illuminate it so we know for certain that the brake pedal was depressed inside of our Escape here.You can also see the breakaway switch located right below that. It comes with a pin and it also comes with a new breakaway switch cable in case your old one is damaged or if you want to keep that one with your other vehicles, since this is the second vehicle kit.Just to show you that everything's working properly, we're going to pull the pin here and you're going to see the braking system apply on the inside.We'll begin our installation by mounting the major components. Now one of the things you'll notice here is that we had the fascia off because we