With the price of scrap lately...I'm careful where I park my old truck
Thoughts on using a trailer minus one wheel.
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With the price of scrap lately...I'm careful where I park my old truck
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Yeah, me too, as they are liable to use your truck to haul mine to the scrap yard.
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Well, I learned the hard way about checking wheel lugs too. We knew we had a problem when one of the trailer wheels passed us. I was helping my son pick up a free 30 foot travel trailer and this happened about 20 km from the start. Unable to find any parts to repair it caused us to tow it on three wheels over 250km. We were on a secondary highway ,very early in the year, and there was very little other traffic. We couldn't maintain more than 50kph without the other tire getting hot. We actually found that we could do 70 in the rain while the water kept everything cool. We did find a place to leave it until we could fit the drum and return for it. !/2 day job turned into a two day trip.
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if they could get mine started.. maybee too!
I'll go somewhere and my wife asks me if I'm worried about someone brekaing into my old dodge.. to which i reply.. ?Why? there's nothing even remotely valuable in there or on the truck.. and those 2 facts are plainly evident...
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Sounds like a trip to the local auto junkyard is in order for two wheels and two tires to replace the damaged one and have a spare.
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i never had luck finding a trailer rim at a salvage yard. always had to go to the spendy dealers to find the correct bolt pattern.. go figure..
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You just have to try every blasted wheel they have to find the one that fits and when that doesn't work, you go to the next junkyard where they actually know something about wheels, and they find it for you. :thumbsup:
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i've even been to the point to make a template out of my rim center hub and bolt pattern so i can walk thru and match up bolt spacing and hub...
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Honestly, how many people with double axle trailers have spares? I don't and I don't really remember seeing spares on double axle rigs. Single axle, yes, but not doubles. Maybe I haven't been paying attention but I think spares are the exception, not the rule.
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i have 2 double axle trailers. both have spares.
i sometimes haul at less than max load, but more often than not, I'm hauling near max load. I'm also usually hauling in a location not near my house.
getting a flat 2m down the road from your house is one thing... getting a flat 2000 miles and 4 states away is another. especially if it's on a weekend/night/holiday... which just happens to be when I do most of my 'long' distance driving. IE.. take a red eye trip out ona weekend night bordering a holiday to run get a tractor and make it back before work the following day. would be a real buzzkill to have to stay on the side of the road till the NEXT DAY waiting for a tire place or tire service to open
can't afford to go down to one axle when trailer is at max legal weight on 2. .. just not safe for one, not good for the trailer 2. considering a spare CAN be had...
this 'not me' head in the sand syndrome is odd ???? I'm not pessimistic or anything.. but I figure that if it can go wrong.. it probably will.. and it may as likely be me as anyone else. Coming home from a fl to texas run in one of those trips i just mentioned ( started on a weekend night, thru a holiday.. etc ).. heading toward houston I ran over a black aligator... it ripped my trailer wire plug out of my socket, as soon as i noticed the 'ERR' on my brake controller I found a safe spot to pull over. Plug was ground down about 40% Took some roadside emergency engineering, mechanics wire, and a roll of electrical tape and some zip ties to get brakes, and illumination and marker signals going again. could have been worse...
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i sometimes haul at less than max load, but more often than not, I'm hauling near max load. I'm also usually hauling in a location not near my house.
getting a flat 2m down the road from your house is one thing... getting a flat 2000 miles and 4 states away is another. especially if it's on a weekend/night/holiday... which just happens to be when I do most of my 'long' distance driving. IE.. take a red eye trip out ona weekend night bordering a holiday to run get a tractor and make it back before work the following day. would be a real buzzkill to have to stay on the side of the road till the NEXT DAY waiting for a tire place or tire service to open
can't afford to go down to one axle when trailer is at max legal weight on 2. .. just not safe for one, not good for the trailer 2. considering a spare CAN be had...
this 'not me' head in the sand syndrome is odd ???? I'm not pessimistic or anything.. but I figure that if it can go wrong.. it probably will.. and it may as likely be me as anyone else. Coming home from a fl to texas run in one of those trips i just mentioned ( started on a weekend night, thru a holiday.. etc ).. heading toward houston I ran over a black aligator... it ripped my trailer wire plug out of my socket, as soon as i noticed the 'ERR' on my brake controller I found a safe spot to pull over. Plug was ground down about 40%
Took some roadside emergency engineering, mechanics wire, and a roll of electrical tape and some zip ties to get brakes, and illumination and marker signals going again. could have been worse...soundguy