Choosing the right the trailer springs. "Any experts on here"
Submitted by bailey024 on Sat, 2017-04-29 14:30
Time to replace the trailer springs but every company seems to have a different opinion on what style,weight, gal or no gal can anybody give me a bit of insight on what to get.
Boat loaded with fuel is 1600kg fibre glass centre console.
Trailer is aluminium with 2300 aggregated trailer mass.
Trailer and boat does alot of KMS.
Springs at the moment are 4 leaf 45mm eye to eye tandem axle
No problems with cutting them off and starting again.
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Shane O
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no expert
but i would just get the same ones you already have if they work
timmy k (not verified)
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they don't look that bad imo
Ive seen way worse
bailey024
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Its Preventive maintenance. I
Its Preventive maintenance. I want to fix things before the possible become an issue.
marrisy
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Maby new shackle bolts and
Maby new shackle bolts and bushes, get a new centre bolt for the springs, split them , treat them with ranex corrosion inhibitor( or black epoxy paint from a can.)
Personaly I like the single leaf springs , galvanized.
SpotHound
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Martins
I laways swear by martins trailer parts in Bayswater, look for th crusty white hair guy.
Otherwise Roadmaster Boat Trailers are good as well. They sell parts.
holth
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Yankie trailer?Id be
Yankie trailer?
Id be surprised if you can get the same springs locally. Martins will set you straight on whats the best way to go down. If it was me. New bolts, bushes and shackle plates. Springs look fine.
bailey024
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I have just found a broken
I have just found a broken leaf so they are getting replaced. Martins are telling me to go 3t springs one person says go gal and you ring back and someone else says dont go gal. I would have thought 3t springs would be over kill i dont want to go bouncing down the road or even worse start damaging the alloy trailer.
bailey024
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Yer yankee trailer. Its a
Yer yankee trailer. Its a magic tilt. For a 21 contender
holth
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Yankie trailers especially
Yankie trailers especially with springs arent usually a straight swap for Oz running gear. There will be some mods to make.
Which martins store you talking with. We use the oconner store for work and the boys there Mark and Ken know there stuff. If you like Come and see us at Fremantle trailers in oconner just down the road from martins. We do this regularly.
JohnF
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Just gone through the same
Just gone through the same thing on a Magictilt tandem trailer. Martins will likely turn their nose up when they hear it is yankee, to be honest I found then arrogant and unhelpful.
I endedup ripping out the entire entire leaf spring running gear and putting Transtyle torsion axles with Lancruiser hubs and SS, brakes made in Melbourne, ordered them through A mob in Perth (Duralite I think). I did the install with help from a few boys off Fishwrecked then we towed it to Exxy, just got back. Towed brilliant, I would go torsion again.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Taffy
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Tow Safe
Tow safe Osborne park Should be able to help you and they Carry a heap of US parts
scottnofish
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Not sure on galv springs
Had normal ones on the 3.5 tonne trailers for 4 years no problem .did up the trailerand put new 4 tonne galv springs on and snapped 2 in a year have gone back to plain steel again now
bailey024
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Cheer for the replys fellas.
Cheer for the replys fellas. Cheers HOLTH but im in port hedland
dodgy
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You been in to see Jan
You been in to see Jan Court? He has a surprising amount in stock.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
ranmar850
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Personaly I like the single
Personaly I like the single leaf springs , galvanized. Unquote Well, he's lucky he can't use those POS's because he had a proper rocker/roller load sharing system.
Gal multi-leafed springs are the source of some contention, there are some really poor imported ones around. The heat involved in the galvanising process doesn't help the temper, I personally stay away from them, because you can't be sure of what you are getting, but that's just my opinion.
Bradmac73
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Roadmaster
The guys at roadmaster just replaced all mine and I would recommend them for sure.