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Project Journals => User Journals => Wolvenar => Topic started by: Wolvenar on April 10, 2012, 12:25:46 am
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Last month I picked up a boat trailer for $50, it was in need of some work, but salvageable.
(http://gallery.anotherpower.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20258&g2_serialNumber=2)
The first problem was someone tried to pull this trailer with only one lug nut on the wheel.
Of course this bent that wheel up pretty bad..
I thought I had an easy swap/fix, until I found out the hubs are all very old and the wheels have very large center holes for the hubs.
This meant that an easy swap of wheels with spares I had wasn't going to happen.
(http://gallery.anotherpower.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20261&g2_serialNumber=2)
(first glance it looks like it would work)
Well after a little more investigation I found that the bearings in this hub were also bad, and the seals were bad in the other side ( good bearings though)
Figured I would just replace one, and use the two to rebuild the other side..
Original axle cut off
(http://gallery.anotherpower.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20281&g2_serialNumber=2)
New *much* heavier duty axle
(http://gallery.anotherpower.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20272&g2_serialNumber=2)
Cut and drilled a plate and welded in place to hold the new axle, drilled a hole in the very hard metal axle (yeah that took some time) to weld in a bolt for the shock.
(http://gallery.anotherpower.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20323&g2_serialNumber=2)
All together and primed. I will be sand blasting the entire thing once I get fenders on and the rest ready so not going to get to picky here yet.
(http://gallery.anotherpower.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20326&g2_serialNumber=2)
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That's pretty cool. I haven't seen one of them with that coil spring setup for years. I had one about 20 years ago. It was a TeeNee trailer. Cripes we dragged that thing to Canada many times with a Shell Lake tri-hull on it.
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Chris