Flat Leaf Springs- Replacement Required?
Please see attached image. I have noticed this at the beginning of last camping season and I ran it like this for a little over 800 miles since I noticed it. I am due for other maintenance and wou...
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Edd505 wrote:1slomofo wrote:enblethen wrote:
Are all the springs showing the same?
I would weigh the rig first.
I would be looking at complete spring, shackles and link replacement
Look on etrailer.com for what packages are available.
Yes they all look exactly the same > Flat .. maybe even slighty bending the wrong way in the middle.
I did weigh it "trip ready" (aka loaded to the gills, full water etc) and it was 13,800lbs total give or take (pending my math on how much is sitting on the truck) 11,400 would be on the trailer axles.
6K axles with 13,800 loaded, see anything wrong?? Two 7K's get you just barely, get a pair of 8K axles to carry the weight and have a bit of wiggle room.
Yea I agree there is plenty wrong with that. They literally rely on pin weight of the truck to take up the slack on the under sized axles. The trailers gvwr from the factory is 14000 and they have 12000lbs of axle. And they make thousands of these things.
