Travel Trailer not using Chinese Tires
It is 20ft 10inches, long and as you can see it uses more than suitable tires. Weight is 8,800lb and of course it goes Off Road
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Bert Ackerman wrote:I have my glasses on. I also have my mechanical apptitude hat on. I also had a 75 Prowler which had a slipper spring on the rear axle.Huntindog wrote:Bert Ackerman wrote:That is not a spring hanger. Is is the shackle. One end of a leaf spring needs to be free to move as the spring flexes. As the spring compresses, it lengthens. That is why it looks like that. With it being a single axle unit, there will be no sideways thrust on the spring attachments during turns.
We already have such a thing in the US but it has a small issue.
It's built on a garbage LCI frame. How long do you think it would take until those long spring hangers twist off if you took it true off roading? Then again you may not make it to the trail as you might twist them off hitting a pothole on the highway or turning out of the gas station LOL. Even if the suspension lasts a trip or two after the first time the staples will pull through the siding and it will start falling off.
Not a thing wrong with it. Good and solid, even if it is low tech.
Go see the Optometrist. It's not a slipper spring which went to the museum about 1940. It's a standard hanger welded with little penetration by a toddler at LCI, and a bolt with nylon bushing through the spring eye the same as the other end of the spring.
What is pictured IS NOT a slipper spring.
Any time a leaf spring on a TT is used, there HAS to be a provision on one end to enable it to lengthen as it compresses.. If the springs are simply bolted to hangers on each end, then it would not be able to flex much if at all... You might as well just bolt the axle directly to the frame... BTW automobiles with leaf springs also have shackles on one end... It is standard fare.
I can get you the contact info of a good optometrist... But I cannot do anything about the mechanical apptitude issue.:B
