Axle flip on a small 16 feet Sportsmen

vlopddap wrote:
...it's the trailer height. Just to reach my house from the main road, the kind of large triangular steel bracket under the rear bumper rub on pavement a few places when I climb steep hills. Obviously my TT is perfectly levelled with my towing vehicle. But to be honest, when the TT is parked in a parking lot, the rear bumper brackets only clear the ground by 3-4 inch maximum.

If the only issue is the clearance in way of these triangular brackets when going up your driveway and if you are level at all other times AND if you don't otherwise need the height increase, I would simply remove the brackets.

With my previous RV they were simploy bolted on to the frame so if yours is the same removal should be a 5 minute job, if that. AFAIK, these brackets are only there to protect the aft end of the trailer from scraping in conditions such as this. If your usage is such that you won't likely scrape the rear end, then the more practical solution is to remove the brackets.

Flipping the axle, at the very least, raises the vertical centre of gravity and hence decreases the (transverse) rollover stability of the trailer.