Well I just finished my install yesterday. Went fairly easy. The only thing I found was that my bronze bushings were a hair to small. They just slid in the spring eye and had a bit of play. What I did was wrap a piece of tin flashing around it (1 wrap) and it made it nice and tight. I needed a hammer and one of the original bolts to press it in. After that everything was just a staright bolt in!
The trailer has always had a creek to it from the suspension, I'm sure this is why.
These bolts were supposed to have been pressed into the one shackle. As you can see they were loose and flexing, wearing into the shackle. All 4 shackles were like this!
This is the factory Equalizer. The plastic bushings are just as worn. I caught all this just in time. Nothing had yet worn into any metal, just the squeeking.
Here are the new shackles compared to the old ones. As you can see there is a bit of a difference!
And the new bushings!
Everything was worn out. I have almost 12k miles on it so this is extremely worn to me. I've always felt that the trailer walked around behind my Excursion, no sway just not very stable! Now just from the short tow back to the storage lot it seemed much more stable. And the other nice thing isn't more creaky suspension! I don't have any after pics because I didn't take any and enough were posted already. I did all of it in approx. 4 hours.
