Axel issue

Need a pic of the hangers, springs and equalizers.

Carlos & Ranae wrote:
. . . After moving the toyhauler back and forth a few times, the tires separated a little. While inspecting the other tires, I found threat separation on driver side rear tire, which I replaced with spare tire.
Rather than having it tow to repair shop, I was thinking of removing the middle tires and bring it to the shop myself. Any advise is welcome. Traveling distance is 12 miles. We are staying put until March. By then, it will be sporting Sailun or GY.

If it was my rig, there's no way I would tow it on a public highway until I crawled underneath to verify the exact cause of the mis-alignment beforehand.

A broken weld? Broken/bent shackle/hanger? Missing suspension bolt? Broken/loose u-bolts? Broken/bent spring?

If the problem is completely isolated to the middle axle, it *may* be safe to tow it with the middle tires/wheels removed. Hard to say for sure without seeing your suspension firsthand.

You can probably tow your rig a short distance, unloaded, with the center wheel removed. I'd check to see what's loose though, you don't want the tire on the other side sliding back like that one did. Keep us posted.

that ain't right!

Why are you towing it to a repair shop? What did you find?

Hope the pictures uploaded. After moving the toyhauler back and forth a few times, the tires separated a little. While inspecting the other tires, I found threat separation on driver side rear tire, which I replaced with spare tire.
Rather than having it tow to repair shop, I was thinking of removing the middle tires and bring it to the shop myself. Any advise is welcome. Traveling distance is 12 miles. We are staying put until March. By then, it will be sporting Sailun or GY.

Thank you for the advice. I will be working on this weekend. I will update the post.

If you backed your rig in, in a straight line, then you absolutely have a problem.

However, if you backed it in at a very tight angle, then you *may* not have a problem. Dual/triple axles do a lot of flexing and moving during turns, so it's possible two tires could touch slightly under extreme flex during a very tight turn.

I would suggest pulling your rig forward in a straight line for at least 10-15 ft. to take all the turning tension off the axles. Then I'd take a very close at the chassis (springs, hangers, axles, etc.) to verify everything's ok . . . even if the tires/wheels return to the proper position. You can't be too safe.

They should never touch but axles can move fore and aft some at weird angles. Look at the equalizer between the axles.

I once had something similar happen on a tandem. Front wheel on road side was almost toughing the rear wheel. I had a broken front spring.
Only other possibility that I can think of would be that bolts around axle are loose and axle slid back on spring.
Either case you will probably have to jack up side of trailer to replace spring or reposition axle on spring and tighten.