3500lb axles bad design
Probably most medium size trailers have the 3500lb axles and 10" brakes. The design of the spindles has little to no shoulder to locate the inner bearing. When I looked up the blueprints, I found th...
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Ralph Cramden wrote:Lynnmor wrote:
This is a #84 spindle and is used by all the axle brands, it is poor design and has nothing to do with the quality of my work. I posted about this several years ago, only to have the thread locked in a matter of hours.
Not knocking your work or your theory but I have had 4 different campers with 3500 lb axles, and over the years somewhere in the neighborhood of 20+ equipment trailers with 3500 lb axles that I was ultimately responsible for. I have never had the issue you describe.
Why not email your theory and pics to Dexter? Those guys are usually very responsive. I would like to know what they say about it. As you said, the design is used on a lot of trailers, and has been for what? 50 years or longer? It's been used for so long I have had the bearing numbers memorized since the 1980s.
Why did you previous thread get locked? Probably turned into a typical forum cluster####?
Actually it isn't a theory, it is a statement of fact, there is little to no ground surface contacting the spindle shoulder. I didn't have an "issue" the trailer still moved down the road.
The previous thread was locked supposedly because I mentioned brakes, bearings and spindles in the same post. It wasn't up long enough for the "never-had-a-problem" folks to post their snide comments. It is one of the reasons that I gave up on starting threads. So I tried again and expect it to continue downhill.
