Replacing spring Hangers

The hanger is just a U shaped piece of flat steel welded to the frame. It has a couple holes drilled for the bolt to attach the spring directly. Multiaxles have a T shaped equalizer in the middle. How about post a pic?

Durhamcutter wrote:
Thanks sorry I didn't make my self clear about the vehicle it is the 5er, I had to have all of the brackets that the hangers and springs attach to and they failed to put hangers on the trailer,they just attached the spring to the frame brackets so consequently the spring don't work correctly, it is like I have a rigid frame and not independent movement of the springs. Thanks for the encouragement.Happy Camping

?? What kind of trailer is this? What make?

I'm working on the same sort of thing right now. I have a broken spring. I found these two eTrailer videos helpful, at least you'll get an idea how it's supposed to be setup:

springs

shackles

and they have more on the same subject. I assume they sell all the parts.

BK

Thanks sorry I didn't make my self clear about the vehicle it is the 5er, I had to have all of the brackets that the hangers and springs attach to and they failed to put hangers on the trailer,they just attached the spring to the frame brackets so consequently the spring don't work correctly, it is like I have a rigid frame and not independent movement of the springs. Thanks for the encouragement.Happy Camping

Are you talking about replacing the spring hangers on the truck or the trailer?

If trailer, it's not a bad job but just make sure you have the necessary jacks and jack stands. On tandem trailers you have to fight with the equilizer a bit to keep it from flopping up or down but once you realize how to support both axles it not too difficult. Also, it's much easier if you have help as the axles are heavy. I did mine by myself as a complete rebuild with new leaf springs, hangers, hd equalizers, u-bolts, etc. Would have been much easier if my son would have been available to help.

Make sure also that you replace ALL hardware you remove, ie, shackle bolts and nuts, u-bolts, etc, etc, as these parts are considered one time use and should not be reused.

If you're talking about your truck, it's even easier.

Hello Durhamcutter. I replaced my spring and shock hangers on my 1990 chevy PU. It is alot easier if you remove the PU bed from the chassis. It is not hard but time consuming. The hangers are held on by rivets and are hsrdened. I used an air chissel but if I had one I would have used a cutting torch. The hardest thing was getting the replacement hangers from chevy. It took alot of research by the parts guy and nobody wanted to take the time. Finally found one dealer who's part gut liked a challenge and after about a week he had ordered the rear spring and shock mounts. I reattached them with grade 8 bolts. Good luck nm1oqrz