Re: Broken Axle on Trailer outside on Knoxville
Update on Mitch. He made it 250 miles to our place on three wheels. He lightened the trailer by dumping all water from tanks, putting stuff from trailer into truck and driving 55 mph, and putting tires at max pressure. While he was on his way here I started gathering parts to repair trailer off of my pile of used 7000# axles. Long story short- fit bearings to axle, set preload best we could with the treads we had, welded nut to axle, and fill cap with grease. We had to rob 8 nuts off of my stacker trailer to mount wheel, my hub is 9/16 studs not 1/2 that was on his trailer.
He drove 700 miles yesterday to other side of OK city.
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