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Posted by Tim Holloway [69.54.28.229] on Monday, September 14, 2009 at 20:50:42 :
This weekend I was doing a little maintanance on my trailer. I had the 4 wheels off and happened to look at the spring shackles. I could see hole around a couple of the bolts. I pulled the bolts, and the holes were all very egg shaped and the nylon bushings all were worn through. A lot of the spring bolts were worn as well. Eventhe cast equalizer pivot bolt had worn the pivot hole elongated. I stopped at a local trailer place on the way home and bought all new parts. The original set-up stinks, as there is no way to grease anything, short of taking it all apart. Like thats ever going to happen. I asked the owner of the trailer store and she said she had greasable spring bolts. Thats a good start, so I asked her about bronze bushings instead of nylon. She looked it up, but the catalog only offered them for 10K axles and above. So, I went with the nylon, but at least now have the ability to get some slippery stuff in there. I am really glad I caught it in my driveway, not after a shackle let go on the way to West Va. That could have been grim.
So, learn from anothers mistakes, and go out and check your spring shackles and bushings. I bet you will find something you didnt want to find!
Tim
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