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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Lynnmor wrote:OK, so the shoulder (1.72) minus your measurement (1.651) = 0.069 difference in diameter, so the overlap is half that, 0.0345. From the drawings, I came up with 0.032 as a minimum.
Here is a photo of an actual bearing, it measures 1.651" where it contacts the shoulder.
So, what's your point, and explain why no one else is having this problem.
Oh, and what did you base your claim about the contact being "about .020" and can be as little as zero using the print tolerances." What has a tolerance of .020, or even .010?
