Trailer leaning to the one side?

rsaylor3 wrote:
Springs on that side are sagging 1" more than the other.

Should I replace all four leaf springs with the next size up? Will that make it ride level or will it still sit lower on that side? Is it a safety concern in that that trailer will behave negatively with it leaning?

Or am I being overly anal on this and should I just leave it be?

Hi,

A few questions.

Where did you measure the 1" difference between the left and right side? Try and be specific where you placed the tape measure.

Was the camper on a hard and level surface when you measured?

Was the camper leveled front to back when you took the measurements?

I looked up your camper. Found this online 2015 brochure. 2015 Cruiser Catalog

Before I would start upgrading springs, tires or shimming, I would need to know technically what the exact problem is. I fully agree with the posts stating, you need to weigh the camper so you can get scaled weights of both sides of the camper. Meaning you have a weight for the curb side (right) and the road side (left). While many campers are not balanced exactly even, how much weight difference you have will be a good piece of info.

Your floor plan, (a nice one congrats!) allows more weight storage on the door side. You also have a 35' 4" long camper with a 9,455# GVWR. That is a good sized camper.

Once armed with scaled weights and we can understand how you determined the 1", this will help.

Your main frame rails can only hold so much weight and deal with everything that comes at you towing down the road. Potholes and RR crossings create a big dynamic impact. The over hung load behind the rear axle is all held by the way the main frame is made and reinforced. Can you measure the main frame? There is an assumption it is a I beam style, but you confirm this. Need to overall height, the width of the flanges and the thickness of the web and the flanges. Try and be as accurate as you can. Being 1/16" off is too much.

By chance, do you have shock absorbers and do you have a rigid solid steel equalizer?

Once you have some good data, suggest a call to Cruiser and ask for customer technical service and ask them if that amount of unbalanced loading and the weights themselves are acceptable for your main frame rails.

And if the frame is OK, then a real good look at tire capacity and how much reserve capacity do you have? It is becoming more common now to be looking for 20% excess tire load capacity over the heaviest wheel location when dealing with tandem axle. What size tires and load range are you on now? What is the axle ratings? This should show on the VIN sticker with the yellow tag load and tire ratings.

Point being, this 1" difference might be the early signs of bigger issues down the road. You are not being anal about asking and or worrying about this. I say, congrats to you for being observant and let's see if you can figure out why.

Hope this helps

John