Getting ready and found this!

howardwheeler wrote:
Primed and painted. Tomorrow it all goes back together.

NICE! Tell your buddy he does excellent work, at least from the pics.

Lyle

Primed and painted. Tomorrow it all goes back together.

My friend really overdid it. But I told I didn't want that to happen again.

wow, I didn't think anyone stick welded any more. Nice job!

Alpenlite, has always been a misnomer. Hopefully you have sturdy tires under it. Those look like 17.5 wheels in the one picture?

I've gotten a new truck that has a higher bed, and this had made the trailer nose high. Since we had to redo the hangers we went ahead and raised it five inches so it rides level. That's another reason the new subframe is so beefy.

Well I guess I should have read all the way through the posts...lol. Looks like you've raised it quite a bit also, about 6-8". Hopefully the big frame cross members don't obstruct access to anything...a bit overkill in my opinion but you shouldn't have any susp issues above your springs.

It only looks like 3/16" steel to me but using 1/4" top to bottom on the outside of the existing hangers would be a good reinforcement along with some boxing in of the end of the hanger also.

I see there are two holes higher up the hanger. I don't know their purpose but it makes me wonder if the spring can be positioned using a higher hole which would put less stress on the hanger.

So it's all welded up and next will be painting. All the hangers are full quarter inch plus completely braced. Turns out the old ones were just three sixteenths. Monday we will put the axles back on.
These pictures are reversed. The last one is with the subframe just tacked up. Notice again that I'm taking all the pictures while my friend does all the work. I am convinced that I will not bend this setup. It is much, much stouter than before.