How to Install the Roadmaster InvisiBrake Flat Tow Brake System on a 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited

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Today in our 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited with our 2016 Forest River on a Mercedes Benz chassis RV, we'll be having a look at, and installing, the Roadmaster InvisiBrake Supplemental Braking System, part number RM-8700. Here's what our monitor light looks like installed. When our brakes are applied on our RV, and then the brakes are triggered in the Jeep, we will see the indicator light that comes on to let us know the brakes are working in the car. If a problem was to occur, and the brakes are being held on for too long inside of our Jeep, we would have an audible buzzer. When you're at a stop sign for an extended period of time, you'll notice my foot hasn't left the brakes, but our indicator light shut off. It does that so it doesn't damage the compressor inside the Jeep, because you're already stopped, but when you go back to your pedal, it turns back on. We have pulled the break away pin on the Jeep. Now you can hear the beeping sound, which indicates that there's a problem. The brakes are hanging up, or in our case, the break away pin has been pulled.
This will alert you so you can pull over safely and determine what the problem is. Here's what our InvisiBrake looks like installed inside the vehicle. As you see, we just have this one small module where we can have access to so we can adjust our pressure. When you have it pushed in, it's locked, so you can't adjust it at all. When you pull it out, you can adjust the pressure how you want it, less sensitive, less braking pressure. You can dial it back up and you get more braking pressure.
Once you have it where you want it, you can push it down and lock it in place, and you don't have to worry about it ever again. What sets this braking system apart from others . Once it's installed and you have it adjusted to where you want it, you never have to do anything ever again to enable it. There is no wires to hook up, no switches to throw. Once it's done, you're done. All you have to do is just hook up to your RV and you're ready to go. Underneath the dash is a nice compact unit that is not going to get in the way our feet at all.
There's no air cylinder in the way here that could possibly limit our foot room. We just have a pulley that's mounted to our firewall that's out of the way and will pull the cable down as necessary to enable our breaks. Okay, so, when we apply the brakes in our RV, our brakes will be applied in our jeep in the same manner. If our break away switch we're to become pulled, for some unfortunate reason of our Jeep becoming disconnected from our RV, our brakes will be applied inside the Jeep, bringing it to a slow and safe stop. Now that we've gone over some features, we'll show you how to get it installed. In order to make our installation easier, we're going to remove our driver's seat. We have a T45 torque screw right here that holds our seatbelt in place to the seat.
We'll remove this. Let her retract back up. We slide our seat back, and we have four bolts that hold our seat to the floor, one in each corner of it. These bolts are 18 mm, so we'll remove all four of them. Once we have all of our bolts removed, we can lift up on our seat. We find an electrical connector here, push down on the tab, separate the connector. With that disconnected, we can remove the seat from the vehicle and get it out of our way. With our seat out of the way, we have an appropriate spot to mount our operating unit right here. We'll just secure it directly to the floor with provided self-tapping screws. Now we're going to remove this panel right here, so we have some room to work, and remove our carpet. To do that, we'll undo a few clips. We have two right here. Use a trim panel tool to remove these. We have two more back in our passenger door area. With this pulled out enough, we can actually get this panel out now. We have another bigger clip right here on that panel. Now we can grab this panel and pull it on out. Now we'll remove our front section of carpet, here. Pull back on the back section, remove this wingnut. All right, we have two wingnuts against our firewall to hold our carpet in the forward section. Remove these. With the wingnuts removed, our carpet will just pull on out now. This is our bracket, which attaches our cable and pulley assembly to our vehicle's brake pedal. There's two sides to it. It's kind of a mirrored image here. This side, here, we want to have this on the driver's side of the vehicle. This side will be on the passenger's side of the brake pedal. We want this side here facing down towards the firewall where it has this flange. What we want to

[@bikkerjoe]

Great job on this video with perfect close up details. Exactly what I needed to help with many questions about this kit. Best install video out there. Well done👏👏.

[@donr100]

Great instructional video! A concern I have with this placement is the knob points to the rear under the front seat, leaving it vulnerable to the feet of someone sitting in the back (it’s a tight place to sit and feet can find themselves under that seat). I installed a 90 deg bracket to protect the knob. I took a pic but can’t figure out how to add it with my phone app. It slid under the controller box and then stuck up with enough room to pull the switch out to adjust.

[@etrailer]

That's an excellent tip, thank you!
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[@DavidInTheWoods]

How does the signal to light and buzzer get to the light and buzzer in MH? I had to interrupt your presentation, but thought I saw it all. Thanks, you are quite concise.

[@vmavaro]

How will this installation effect the warranty on a 2021 Jeep.

[@etrailer]

You will need to check with the manufacturer of your Jeep to see how it will effect your warranty. The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act protects owners of vehicles warranties when adding aftermarket components.
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[@danieloconnell9554]

How long is it to install

[@etrailer]

Depending on the skill level of the installer, this installation could take 3-5 hours.
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