rickasbury
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2011
- Messages
- 757
Wow did discover a mess yesterday. I have a rinker 270. That's a 7500# boat dry. My trailer is a 10000# tandem axle trailer. If I had the money I'd scrap the aluminum and start over! Well, at least strip it down and refit. Anyway, I noticed yesterday o the port side it did not look like the front tire was talking the rear tire and it looked like the top of the tire was towed in. Thought it was just sitting funny on the street...towed to storage and kept looking that way driving down the road...put a straight edge on it and indeed confirmed the above-mentioned checked the other side and while not as bad, a problem. Looked up underneath portside and the top leaf is broken from right in the middle under the axle and jambed up against the trailer. Yuk. I'm heading back to get a better assessment. Never dealt with this and looking online for replacement. Is the length the eye to eye straight across dimension? I'm trying to understand if the broken spring is the cause of what I visually see with the tires or do I have additional problems with that axle? so