Effects of trailer brakes and sway
Picture this hypothetical situation: Tandem axle trailer, weight distribution/anti sway hitch, tongue weight 12.5% of trailer weight, trailer at or near (not over) max gross weight, trailer to tow ve...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
They have a toe spec, but it's always 0 on every trailer I have measured. Why would it be anything but 0 on a non steer axel?
Yes the target for toe is 0 degrees. But there is a tolerance in parts of a degree. Not whole degrees but 2 decimal places of a degree. Wheel toe often ends up out of tolerance when the axle tubes/spindles are made wrong, bent axle, bent wheel, other failed part or axle tubes mounted or assembled on the trailer wrong.
From my learnings, axle alignment covers: (all with tolerances)
Thrust angle of the front axle to the tow ball/pin
Parallelism of the front axle to the back axle if tandem or triples
Toe at the wheel
Camber of the axle
There is no caster as the wheel does not pivot on a vertical axle spindle during a turn. Well these trailer wheels do flex all kinds of strange directions in a 90 degree turn, but that is not really steering, more of deflecting.
