Toy lived, trailer died.
Do tell...Trailer died by treating the symptoms of a undersized tow rig.
I'm pretty sure that it has something to do with the sway bars or whatever they are.Do tell...
I see a stupid raise ball mount , with a sky hi trailer frame...
Going back to fire up the laptop to get a second look.
The tall hitch is adding stress to the tow vehicle not the trailer. The trailer needed to pivot, articulate on the ball, those bars prevented that so it pivoted on the next place that it could.Then trailer frame sux.
Load lever hitches hold up way more than a taco round here...
And here is the story from the owner that posted the pics:for getting the "after" pics
The trailer mods are less of a concern to me than what was the squat of the truck prior to ever hooking the trailer to it?And here is the story from the owner that posted the pics:
"I upgraded the entire suspension from the shackles down, bigger axles, 15 inch tires, had to “flip” the axles to gain some wheel well clearance. This ended up raising the trailer 7 inches, thus the struggle to raise the hitch ball…. However crazy it might look, I had nothing but smooth sailing for 60,000 miles until I hit a perpendicular rut filled with gravel at 20mph on a BLM road 20 miles into the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. The good news is that I was able to drive 140 miles on the shoulder back to Cody and found an old school welder who cut out an eleven inch section of the frame that was crumpled, fish plated a new section in and welded in a few gussets, better than new for $385. I was so happy I gave him $500, have put on 20,000 miles since with no issues. Yes, I need a bigger truck, but really can’t afford it on a fixed income. Now you know the rest of the story!"
Modified the trailer.
Nuff said
The trailer mods are less of a concern to me than what was the squat of the truck prior to ever hooking the trailer to it?
Load leveling hitches use the length of the frame as a lever to lessen rear axle weight and add front axle weight.
so if you overload the rear of the truck the fulcrum point becomes the bracket mounts on the trailer frame.
So you overload the bed of the truck and try and correct it with a load leveling hitch, the trailer tongue weight may have not been the issue.
This may not be a popular explanation, but the trailer is not an overly heavy looking toy box style, I'll bet the truck bed was over loaded.
trailer mods, and odd hitch setup are less of an issue than an overloaded truck and a driver trying to fix it with load leveling hitch.
That seems perfectly fine to me.And here is the story from the owner that posted the pics:
"I upgraded the entire suspension from the shackles down, bigger axles, 15 inch tires, had to “flip” the axles to gain some wheel well clearance. This ended up raising the trailer 7 inches, thus the struggle to raise the hitch ball…. However crazy it might look, I had nothing but smooth sailing for 60,000 miles until I hit a perpendicular rut filled with gravel at 20mph on a BLM road 20 miles into the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. The good news is that I was able to drive 140 miles on the shoulder back to Cody and found an old school welder who cut out an eleven inch section of the frame that was crumpled, fish plated a new section in and welded in a few gussets, better than new for $385. I was so happy I gave him $500, have put on 20,000 miles since with no issues. Yes, I need a bigger truck, but really can’t afford it on a fixed income. Now you know the rest of the story!"
WD hitch problemsFaggy Toyota problems.
Lack of tranny temp sticker
There's nothing to address. It's a trailer axle. Not some leaf sprung hot rod on big sticky tires that's wrapping it all up. The lift barely does anything beyond move the trailer frame up, This is more or less compensated for by moving the trailer ball up. And the WDH is more or less unaffected because you'll just wind up with more links of chain between the bar and the bracket than you did before.You don't want to address the axle swap and lift?
Dumb interstate tie down with $1.99 tie downs;
There was nothing else holding it down in front. It rolled/rocked back & forth as it hit expansion joints with the two rear corner straps going slack and then snapping back taut.
Oddly, the front one was tied town reasonably well with 4 appropriately sized and purpose specific straps. I guess his buddy asked him to bring his along and didn’t provide any straps or something.