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Ausfish Gold Member
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Ausfish Silver Member
Re: single leaf springs
Check your PM Box.
Cheers,
Roo.
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Ausfish Addict
Re: single leaf springs
I think most are missing the point, the actual spring system is fine (parabolic) but the quality is the problem, good quality made springs will be fine, regardless of the system used, and even galvanised ones are OK, the drama is when cheap crap springs are used, doesn't matter if you have a single leaf, or a whole set on a duel setup, if they are cheap crap, they will give you grief, and usually sooner than later.
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Ausfish Bronze Member
Re: single leaf springs
The old man broke a spring. Tandem wheels 2 tonne rated trailer maxed out in weight. He broke it turning into a marine shop doing 5km per hr. Its the first time I have ever seen broken leaf springs.
Made me feel sick deep down in my stomack. If that spring had broken on the open road, the only way it could end is badly.
There is something wrong with the trailer on full lock (turning circle) I suspect it loads up with side thrust.
Anyone know anything about it ?
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Ausfish Addict
Re: single leaf springs
next time someone with a duel wheel trailer with a decent load is reversing into a driveway, take a look at the wheels, they are screwed at angles that will scare the pants off you, there is huge loads when turning, another often over looked thing is when a driveway has a "hump" when one wheel gets on top of the hump, it is forced up hard, and the spring is taking the full load instead of equal sharing, proper rocker tandem setups will help, but with double slippers, it is a spring/axle/bearing/tyre killer! couple this with cheap springs, and your in for some work and expense.
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Ausfish Addict
Re: single leaf springs
Cheap soft axels and underinflated tyres don't help. See a lot of tyres get trimmed by guards ( or guards get rub marks from tyres) when all the weight goes on one tyre and axel twists and loads of lateral load on springs. Tyres then fail on the road later.
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