Check your leaf spring shackles!
Just went through a pretty rough stretch of the Alaska highway northbound between Destruction Bay and Beaver Creek, YT. Stopped for fuel, and found this: I'm lucky the axle didn't rip off!...
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dodge guy wrote:
Except that the torsion suspension offers no suspension travel. And if you aren’t perfectly level you will overload one of the axles. I had those axles on my first trailer and the trailer hit every bump with a jolt.no thanks!
Yes there is some suspension travel on torsion axles, but you are correct about loading one axle more than the other because there is no equalizer. I have a large snowmobile trailer with torsion axles, often there is daylight under a tire on an uneven surface. The other thing it that the frame takes the load at a single point on uneven surfaces and at two points normally, a leaf spring trailer spreads the load over a longer distance. A torsion axle trailer needs to be dead level to better balance the load between two axles. I do believe there is a benefit with an equalizer which allows the tires to step over a bump. I'm not really defending the leaf spring arrangement because they are mostly cheap junk and we have to pick our poison.
